Readings in PhilosophyJohn Herman Randall, Justus Buchler, Evelyn Urban Shirk |
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Page 178
... present situation from which he has to arrive at , or conclude to , something else that is not present . This process of arriving at an idea of what is absent on the basis of what is at hand is inference . What is present carries or ...
... present situation from which he has to arrive at , or conclude to , something else that is not present . This process of arriving at an idea of what is absent on the basis of what is at hand is inference . What is present carries or ...
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... present ; for then it would have been possible to attain his whole end through these words . Therefore it is an undertaking as unworthy as it is absurd if , as has often been tried at the present day , one seeks to reduce a poem of ...
... present ; for then it would have been possible to attain his whole end through these words . Therefore it is an undertaking as unworthy as it is absurd if , as has often been tried at the present day , one seeks to reduce a poem of ...
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... present life , as we shall show in the sequel , it was neces- sary for his mind to be bidden to something higher than those things to which our reason can reach in the present life , so that he might learn to aspire , and by his ...
... present life , as we shall show in the sequel , it was neces- sary for his mind to be bidden to something higher than those things to which our reason can reach in the present life , so that he might learn to aspire , and by his ...
Contents
Euthyphro Plato | 3 |
Two Meditations René Descartes | 18 |
Democracy | 23 |
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