Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... bodies led people to cling tenaciously to the view that the earth was stationary until the astronomers showed that patiently accumulated facts about the positions and motions of heavenly bodies required us to abandon the once common ...
... bodies led people to cling tenaciously to the view that the earth was stationary until the astronomers showed that patiently accumulated facts about the positions and motions of heavenly bodies required us to abandon the once common ...
Page 367
... bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by Sense or by Reason . As for our senses , by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations , ideas , or those things that are immediately perceived by ...
... bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by Sense or by Reason . As for our senses , by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations , ideas , or those things that are immediately perceived by ...
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... bodies to exist with- out the mind , yet to hold they do so must needs be a very pre- carious opinion ; since it is to suppose , without any reason at all , that God has created innumerable beings that are entirely use- less , and serve ...
... bodies to exist with- out the mind , yet to hold they do so must needs be a very pre- carious opinion ; since it is to suppose , without any reason at all , that God has created innumerable beings that are entirely use- less , and serve ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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