Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... observation of actual conditions . On the contrary , the implication of the criticism is the necessity for continued ... observed facts under a premise drawn from a metaphysical source ) can obviate the need for continued resort to ...
... observation of actual conditions . On the contrary , the implication of the criticism is the necessity for continued ... observed facts under a premise drawn from a metaphysical source ) can obviate the need for continued resort to ...
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... observed phenomena , and erected a hier- archy of sciences ( mathematics , physics , chemistry , biology , psychology , and sociology ) terminating in a high priesthood of sociologists . Mach was a more critical scientific thinker who ...
... observed phenomena , and erected a hier- archy of sciences ( mathematics , physics , chemistry , biology , psychology , and sociology ) terminating in a high priesthood of sociologists . Mach was a more critical scientific thinker who ...
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... observed by Tycho , are all on one ellipse . Never for a moment does he have the thought that by a strange play of chance , Tycho never observed the heavens except at a moment when the real orbit of the planet happened to cut this ...
... observed by Tycho , are all on one ellipse . Never for a moment does he have the thought that by a strange play of chance , Tycho never observed the heavens except at a moment when the real orbit of the planet happened to cut this ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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