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... better and better position toward it ; and on this line we agree to fight out our thinking lives . But if a skeptic asks us how we know all this , can our logic find a reply ? It cannot . It is just one volition against another ; we are ...
... better and better position toward it ; and on this line we agree to fight out our thinking lives . But if a skeptic asks us how we know all this , can our logic find a reply ? It cannot . It is just one volition against another ; we are ...
Page 98
... better than try once for all to sweep them completely away . Later on they might be replaced , either by others which were better , or by the same when I had made them conform to the uniformity of a rational scheme . I firmly believed ...
... better than try once for all to sweep them completely away . Later on they might be replaced , either by others which were better , or by the same when I had made them conform to the uniformity of a rational scheme . I firmly believed ...
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... better to become a colonist or an engineer , to do something that is real and true , than to chew over once more the old dried - up themes under cover of some " new wave of philosophic thought " ; better to construct an aero - engine ...
... better to become a colonist or an engineer , to do something that is real and true , than to chew over once more the old dried - up themes under cover of some " new wave of philosophic thought " ; better to construct an aero - engine ...
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