Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... understanding and purifying it , as far as may be at the outset , so that it may apprehend things without error , and in the best possible way . Thus it is apparent to every one that I wish to direct all sciences to one end and aim , so ...
... understanding and purifying it , as far as may be at the outset , so that it may apprehend things without error , and in the best possible way . Thus it is apparent to every one that I wish to direct all sciences to one end and aim , so ...
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... understanding . And whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or a more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true divisions of nature , words stand in the way and resist the change . Whence it comes to pass that ...
... understanding . And whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or a more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true divisions of nature , words stand in the way and resist the change . Whence it comes to pass that ...
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... understanding is obnoxious to the influence of the imagination no less than to the influence of common notions . For the contentious and sophistical kind of philosophy ensnares the understanding ; but this kind , being fanciful and ...
... understanding is obnoxious to the influence of the imagination no less than to the influence of common notions . For the contentious and sophistical kind of philosophy ensnares the understanding ; but this kind , being fanciful and ...
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