An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry: Contemporary and Classical SourcesJoseph Margolis |
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... reason may coincide with the reason . The reason why Jones crossed the road might in fact be his desire for tobacco . He might also be aware that he wanted to inspect the girl at close quarters , but was concealing this by the ...
... reason may coincide with the reason . The reason why Jones crossed the road might in fact be his desire for tobacco . He might also be aware that he wanted to inspect the girl at close quarters , but was concealing this by the ...
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... reason not be the reason why he did it . Central to the relation between a reason and an action it explains is the idea that the agent performed the action because he had the reason . Of course , we can include this idea too in ...
... reason not be the reason why he did it . Central to the relation between a reason and an action it explains is the idea that the agent performed the action because he had the reason . Of course , we can include this idea too in ...
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... reason . Such generalizations are built up from knowledge of many individual cases where we have found that a person acted ( or did not act ) from a given reason , and we now use them in a new case to confirm or throw doubt on the ...
... reason . Such generalizations are built up from knowledge of many individual cases where we have found that a person acted ( or did not act ) from a given reason , and we now use them in a new case to confirm or throw doubt on the ...
Contents
PHILOSOPHICAL PERPLEXITY | 33 |
INTRODUCTION | 44 |
Religious Disputes | 99 |
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A. J. Ayer action analysis analytic answer argument ascribe assertion behaviour believe body called causal cause certainly character colour conceived concept consider definition denoting Descartes described distinction doubt effect empirical entity evidence evil example existence experience explanandum explanation expression fact false feel follows give given hand happen human Hylas idea identity implies inductive inference kind king of France knowledge language logical machine material thing mathematics matter meaning merely mind moral responsibility natural law necessary nominatum notion object observation occur P. F. Strawson pain particular perceived person Philonous philosophical phrase physical possible predicate pretending principle priori problem problem of evil proposition question reality reason reference regard relation Reply Obj seems sensations sense sense-data sentence someone sort soul speak statement suppose synonymy synthetic proposition theory thought Thrasymachus tion true truth Turing machine understand verified words