Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... live so now . But the savage people in many places of America , except the government of small families , the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust , have no government at all ; and live at this day . in that brutish manner , as I ...
... live so now . But the savage people in many places of America , except the government of small families , the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust , have no government at all ; and live at this day . in that brutish manner , as I ...
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... live . Similarly , we incline to accept the statements of the sciences for just what they purport to be : that there is such a substance as oxygen and that it combines with other substances in certain ways ; that these substances may be ...
... live . Similarly , we incline to accept the statements of the sciences for just what they purport to be : that there is such a substance as oxygen and that it combines with other substances in certain ways ; that these substances may be ...
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... live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed . If I ask you to believe in the Mahdi , the notion makes no ...
... live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed . If I ask you to believe in the Mahdi , the notion makes no ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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