Philosophical Works, Volume 1Cambridge Press, 1967 - Philosophy |
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... philosophy . In this way a state can have no greater good than the possession of true philosophy . And , in addition , it would have been pointed out that as regards the individual , it is not only useful to live with those who apply ...
... philosophy . In this way a state can have no greater good than the possession of true philosophy . And , in addition , it would have been pointed out that as regards the individual , it is not only useful to live with those who apply ...
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... philosophy to attain by its means a knowledge of those arts which are useful to life , because the invention of the telescope , which I there described , is one of the most difficult ever attempted . In the treatise on Meteors I ...
... philosophy to attain by its means a knowledge of those arts which are useful to life , because the invention of the telescope , which I there described , is one of the most difficult ever attempted . In the treatise on Meteors I ...
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... philosophy of Democritus is not less different from ours than from the vulgar1 . But Democritus also imagined that there were certain corpuscles that had various figures , sizes and motions , from the heaping together and mutual ...
... philosophy of Democritus is not less different from ours than from the vulgar1 . But Democritus also imagined that there were certain corpuscles that had various figures , sizes and motions , from the heaping together and mutual ...
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