Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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Page 254
... conclusion also . It is true that we do gen- erally reason correctly by nature . But that is an accident ; the true conclusion would remain true if we had no impulse to accept it ; and the false one would remain false , though we could ...
... conclusion also . It is true that we do gen- erally reason correctly by nature . But that is an accident ; the true conclusion would remain true if we had no impulse to accept it ; and the false one would remain false , though we could ...
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... conclusions . Now it seems evident that , if this conclusion were formed by reason , it would be as perfect at first , and upon one instance , as after ever so long a course of experience . But the case is far otherwise . Nothing so ...
... conclusions . Now it seems evident that , if this conclusion were formed by reason , it would be as perfect at first , and upon one instance , as after ever so long a course of experience . But the case is far otherwise . Nothing so ...
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... conclusions , it is not a bond- servant but free , subject only to the external control and negative . ruling of theology . As was shown above , philosophy is from the very nature of things obliged to employ as an instrument the ...
... conclusions , it is not a bond- servant but free , subject only to the external control and negative . ruling of theology . As was shown above , philosophy is from the very nature of things obliged to employ as an instrument the ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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