Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... better able to know the things which are good relatively to ourselves , and , know- ing them , to acquire them . Now although there is a certain plausibility in this theory , it seems not to harmonize with scientific experience ; for ...
... better able to know the things which are good relatively to ourselves , and , know- ing them , to acquire them . Now although there is a certain plausibility in this theory , it seems not to harmonize with scientific experience ; for ...
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... better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away , that I might afterwards be in a position to admit either others more correct , or even perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of Reason . I firmly believed that in ...
... better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away , that I might afterwards be in a position to admit either others more correct , or even perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of Reason . I firmly believed that in ...
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... Better forego some artificial stimulus , though that , too , has its charm , than become insensible to natural joys . Indeed , ability to revert to elementary beauties is a test that judgment remains sound . Vulgarity is quite another ...
... Better forego some artificial stimulus , though that , too , has its charm , than become insensible to natural joys . Indeed , ability to revert to elementary beauties is a test that judgment remains sound . Vulgarity is quite another ...
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