Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 1Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1923 - Philosophy |
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... function , the state of strain , when the organism is confronted with an unfavourable situation ( S ) , finds its ... functional antagonist to this Sis R— , in which the organism , as it were , " gives up the ghost , ' succumbs to ...
... function , the state of strain , when the organism is confronted with an unfavourable situation ( S ) , finds its ... functional antagonist to this Sis R— , in which the organism , as it were , " gives up the ghost , ' succumbs to ...
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... function of the mobile gravi- tational field as well as of the relative movement of the par- ticular observer ? Certainly the requirements conflict . But may not the conflict arise from a tendency to simplify the matter over- much ? The ...
... function of the mobile gravi- tational field as well as of the relative movement of the par- ticular observer ? Certainly the requirements conflict . But may not the conflict arise from a tendency to simplify the matter over- much ? The ...
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... function of the gravitational field . For any given value of m , the rod's real geodetic length ( for it can no longer be straight , the geometry being non - Euclidean ) will be a fixed amount , the same for all values of the co ...
... function of the gravitational field . For any given value of m , the rod's real geodetic length ( for it can no longer be straight , the geometry being non - Euclidean ) will be a fixed amount , the same for all values of the co ...
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... function of the press would appear to be to collect from all the world information of disasters , plagues , famine , pestilence , and crime . You will agree that this shows that in some respects at least we have advanced towards a life ...
... function of the press would appear to be to collect from all the world information of disasters , plagues , famine , pestilence , and crime . You will agree that this shows that in some respects at least we have advanced towards a life ...
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... functions would be to supplement the compulsory terms of an Award by reference to the conditions and possibilities of a particular business . " I do not wish to do injustice to employers . But I must confess to a conviction that the ...
... functions would be to supplement the compulsory terms of an Award by reference to the conditions and possibilities of a particular business . " I do not wish to do injustice to employers . But I must confess to a conviction that the ...
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Page 145 - The right method of philosophy would be this: To say nothing except what can be said, ie the propositions of natural science, ie something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions.
Page 137 - Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life.
Page 145 - We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Page 267 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful ; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
Page 240 - Education is the guidance of the individual towards a comprehension of Jh&-art of life; and by the art of life I mean the. most complete achievement of varied activity expressing . the potentialities of that living creature in the face of its actual environment. This completeness of achievement involves an artistic sense, subordinating the lower to the higher possibilities...
Page 295 - Our true country is that ideal realm which we represent to ourselves under the names of religion, duty, and the like. Our terrestrial organizations are but far-off approaches to so fair a model, and all they are verily traitors who resist not any attempt to divert them from this their original intendment. When, therefore, one would have us to fling up our caps and shout with the multitude...
Page 238 - Unfortunately, he takes Spinoza's method as his model, though he does not follow the model in all details. There is no array of definitions, axioms and postulates, but only propositions, each deduced from the preceding. Thus, a heavy weight is thrown on the first proposition of the series. This is...
Page 67 - Write on your doors the saying wise and old, " Be bold ! be bold ! " and everywhere — " Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
Page 229 - To this end, the Medical Research Committee and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, with the active encouragement of the Home Office, decided to form a committee to investigate the subject of industrial fatigue on comprehensive lines, embracing all classes of factories within its scope of work.
Page 297 - The man who places a part does not fasten it — the part may not be fully in place until after several operations later. The man who puts in a bolt does not put on the nut; the man who puts on the nut does not tighten it.