Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... matter of physics is no longer matter in the old sense , it may be that what we call our thoughts are ingredients of the com- plexes with which physics has replaced the old conception of matter . The dualism of mind and matter is out ...
... matter of physics is no longer matter in the old sense , it may be that what we call our thoughts are ingredients of the com- plexes with which physics has replaced the old conception of matter . The dualism of mind and matter is out ...
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... matter and mind . For Descartes there are two kinds of substances - matter and mind . And he defines sub- stance as " an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist . " The distinctive characteristic of matter is ...
... matter and mind . For Descartes there are two kinds of substances - matter and mind . And he defines sub- stance as " an existent thing which requires nothing but itself in order to exist . " The distinctive characteristic of matter is ...
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... matter has at any rate ended by producing minds . Ma- terialism can only become reasonable by allowing an element to exist in matter which has affinity with the latest outgrowth from matter which is mind . But then matter ceases to be ...
... matter has at any rate ended by producing minds . Ma- terialism can only become reasonable by allowing an element to exist in matter which has affinity with the latest outgrowth from matter which is mind . But then matter ceases to be ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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