Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... thought , that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe ? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions ; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion . So far from ...
... thought , that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe ? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions ; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion . So far from ...
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... thought and embodied purpose of some universal soul of nature . A man who sees the same world , but who has no eye for the fairness of it , will find all the visible facts , but will catch nothing of their value . At once , then , the ...
... thought and embodied purpose of some universal soul of nature . A man who sees the same world , but who has no eye for the fairness of it , will find all the visible facts , but will catch nothing of their value . At once , then , the ...
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... thought . The philosophic attempt takes every word , and every phrase , in the verbal expression of thought , and asks , What does it mean ? It refuses to be satisfied by the con- ventional presupposition that every sensible person ...
... thought . The philosophic attempt takes every word , and every phrase , in the verbal expression of thought , and asks , What does it mean ? It refuses to be satisfied by the con- ventional presupposition that every sensible person ...
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