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... senses convey ? Galileo maintained that " it is impossible that a sense experience should be in conflict with truth " ; yet , despite all apparent evidence of the senses to the contrary , Copernicus had shown that the earth moves and ...
... senses convey ? Galileo maintained that " it is impossible that a sense experience should be in conflict with truth " ; yet , despite all apparent evidence of the senses to the contrary , Copernicus had shown that the earth moves and ...
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... sense , may be said to be purely analytical . In this group we find such assertions as " Red is a color , " " All bodies are extended , " " All events occur in time . " They are also indubitably true because in each case their predicate ...
... sense , may be said to be purely analytical . In this group we find such assertions as " Red is a color , " " All bodies are extended , " " All events occur in time . " They are also indubitably true because in each case their predicate ...
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... sense impressions . It is a " thing " of the external world ( in the sense defined above ) ; and I mean it in the concreteness of its physical reality . My assertion , therefore , that " There is a house " involves an imaginative ...
... sense impressions . It is a " thing " of the external world ( in the sense defined above ) ; and I mean it in the concreteness of its physical reality . My assertion , therefore , that " There is a house " involves an imaginative ...
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and Empirical Elements in Experience | 21 |
THE DISPUTES OVER SPACE AND TIME | 49 |
THE WORLD ABOUT US AND ITS INTERPRETATION | 77 |
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