Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it , than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed . The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self - evident and self - justifying . This all but ...
... given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it , than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed . The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self - evident and self - justifying . This all but ...
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... given in experience , and ( 2 ) what is con- tributed by the interpretation of the mind . The given in experience is formless and chaotic and can enter into knowledge only by being transformed and ordered by the faculties of the mind ...
... given in experience , and ( 2 ) what is con- tributed by the interpretation of the mind . The given in experience is formless and chaotic and can enter into knowledge only by being transformed and ordered by the faculties of the mind ...
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... given at the same time ; even in pure dialectic , the comparison is with a datum believed to have been given formerly . If both terms were simply given they would compose a complex essence , with- out the least signification . Only when ...
... given at the same time ; even in pure dialectic , the comparison is with a datum believed to have been given formerly . If both terms were simply given they would compose a complex essence , with- out the least signification . Only when ...
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