Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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Page 357
... 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 obvious ...
... 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 obvious ...
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... sense , conclusions of an implicit reasoning , are as well founded as the certainties of science . But their ... sense possesses a knowledge whose mode is equally imperfect , because it is confused and implicit . Common sense therefore ...
... sense , conclusions of an implicit reasoning , are as well founded as the certainties of science . But their ... sense possesses a knowledge whose mode is equally imperfect , because it is confused and implicit . Common sense therefore ...
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... sense yields to the mere opinions of popular belief , philoso- phy continues to extend indefinitely the domain of scientific certainty . Thus philosophy justifies and continues common sense , as , for instance , the art of poetry ...
... sense yields to the mere opinions of popular belief , philoso- phy continues to extend indefinitely the domain of scientific certainty . Thus philosophy justifies and continues common sense , as , for instance , the art of poetry ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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