Readings in PhilosophyJohn Herman Randall, Justus Buchler, Evelyn Urban Shirk |
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Page 76
... greater can be conceived . Or is there no such nature , since the fool hath said in his heart , there is no God ? ( Psalms xiv . 1 ) . But , at any rate , this very fool , when he hears of this being of which I speak- a being than which ...
... greater can be conceived . Or is there no such nature , since the fool hath said in his heart , there is no God ? ( Psalms xiv . 1 ) . But , at any rate , this very fool , when he hears of this being of which I speak- a being than which ...
Page 77
... greater can be conceived , is one , than which a greater can be conceived . But obviously this is impossible . Hence , there is no doubt that there exists a being , than which nothing greater can be conceived , and it exists both in the ...
... greater can be conceived , is one , than which a greater can be conceived . But obviously this is impossible . Hence , there is no doubt that there exists a being , than which nothing greater can be conceived , and it exists both in the ...
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... greater than its part , but to one who fails to conceive mentally the meaning of a whole , it must needs be unknown . Hence it is that those things which are most evident of all are to the intellect what the sun is to the eye of an owl ...
... greater than its part , but to one who fails to conceive mentally the meaning of a whole , it must needs be unknown . Hence it is that those things which are most evident of all are to the intellect what the sun is to the eye of an owl ...
Contents
Euthyphro Plato | 3 |
Two Meditations René Descartes | 18 |
Democracy | 23 |
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