Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... inference may be formulated in a proposition whose truth depends on the validity of the inferences which the habit determines ; and such a formula is called a guiding principle of inference . Suppose , for example , that we observe that ...
... inference may be formulated in a proposition whose truth depends on the validity of the inferences which the habit determines ; and such a formula is called a guiding principle of inference . Suppose , for example , that we observe that ...
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... inference ; because as we have just seen we can make no inference from the present , since it will be past before the inference gets drawn . Then we must have an immediate consciousness of the past . But if we have an immediate ...
... inference ; because as we have just seen we can make no inference from the present , since it will be past before the inference gets drawn . Then we must have an immediate consciousness of the past . But if we have an immediate ...
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... inference from the other . But you must confess that the inference is not intuitive ; neither is it demonstrative : Of what nature is it , then ? To say it is ex- perimental , is begging the question . For all inferences from ex ...
... inference from the other . But you must confess that the inference is not intuitive ; neither is it demonstrative : Of what nature is it , then ? To say it is ex- perimental , is begging the question . For all inferences from ex ...
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