Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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Page 357
... common sense , but those three epistemological premisses ( p . 356 ) had so thoroughly infected their theory of knowledge with the germ of skepticism that the dictates of common sense were all but submerged . To common sense it seems ...
... common sense , but those three epistemological premisses ( p . 356 ) had so thoroughly infected their theory of knowledge with the germ of skepticism that the dictates of common sense were all but submerged . To common sense it seems ...
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... common sense , conclusions of an implicit reasoning , are as well founded as the certainties of science . But their ... common sense possesses a knowledge whose mode is equally imperfect , because it is confused and implicit . Common ...
... common sense , conclusions of an implicit reasoning , are as well founded as the certainties of science . But their ... common sense possesses a knowledge whose mode is equally imperfect , because it is confused and implicit . Common ...
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... common sense , and what is their true significance ; a function which common sense is incapable of performing , for the very reason that it does not understand , or does not understand clearly , the grounds of its knowledge . In this ...
... common sense , and what is their true significance ; a function which common sense is incapable of performing , for the very reason that it does not understand , or does not understand clearly , the grounds of its knowledge . In this ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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