Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away , that I might afterwards be in a position to admit either others more correct , or even perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of Reason . I firmly believed that in ...
... better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away , that I might afterwards be in a position to admit either others more correct , or even perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of Reason . I firmly believed that in ...
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... better , then , that metaphysics should be criticized and not be allowed to run loose . A man may say " I will content myself with com- mon sense . " I , for one , am with him there , in the main . I shall show why I do not think there ...
... better , then , that metaphysics should be criticized and not be allowed to run loose . A man may say " I will content myself with com- mon sense . " I , for one , am with him there , in the main . I shall show why I do not think there ...
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... Better forego some artificial stimulus , though that , too , has its charm , than become insensible to natural joys . Indeed , ability to revert to elementary beauties is a test that judgment remains sound . Vulgarity is quite another ...
... Better forego some artificial stimulus , though that , too , has its charm , than become insensible to natural joys . Indeed , ability to revert to elementary beauties is a test that judgment remains sound . Vulgarity is quite another ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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