Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... knowledge ) is that all knowledge is compounded out of two factors : ( 1 ) what is 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 ...
... knowledge ) is that all knowledge is compounded out of two factors : ( 1 ) what is 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 ...
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... knowledge or a higher form of knowledge . It is not knowledge at all . It cannot err or be challenged , since it posits no existence and asserts no fact . Essences , for Santayana , do not exist . 6 They may , however , become signs to ...
... knowledge or a higher form of knowledge . It is not knowledge at all . It cannot err or be challenged , since it posits no existence and asserts no fact . Essences , for Santayana , do not exist . 6 They may , however , become signs to ...
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... knowledge inexorably to scepticism of a dogmatic sort , I mean to the assertion that the very notion of knowledge is absurd . One assumption is that knowledge should be intuition : but I have already come to the conclusion that ...
... knowledge inexorably to scepticism of a dogmatic sort , I mean to the assertion that the very notion of knowledge is absurd . One assumption is that knowledge should be intuition : but I have already come to the conclusion that ...
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