Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... bodies led people to cling tenaciously to the view that the earth was stationary until the astronomers showed that patiently accumulated facts about the positions and motions of heavenly bodies required us to abandon the once common ...
... bodies led people to cling tenaciously to the view that the earth was stationary until the astronomers showed that patiently accumulated facts about the positions and motions of heavenly bodies required us to abandon the once common ...
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... bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by Sense or by Reason . As for our senses , by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations , ideas , or those things that are immediately perceived by ...
... bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by Sense or by Reason . As for our senses , by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations , ideas , or those things that are immediately perceived by ...
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... bodies of knowledge differ , how far these differences are due to material , to method , and to aim , when we should know how these bodies of knowledge are built up from what we perceive , and with what degree of confidence they may be ...
... bodies of knowledge differ , how far these differences are due to material , to method , and to aim , when we should know how these bodies of knowledge are built up from what we perceive , and with what degree of confidence they may be ...
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