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... imagine I have now to reject the contrary opinion . Hyl .: What ! Can anything be more fantastical , more repugnant to common sense or a more manifest piece of skepticism than to believe there is no such thing as matter ? Phil .: Softly ...
... imagine I have now to reject the contrary opinion . Hyl .: What ! Can anything be more fantastical , more repugnant to common sense or a more manifest piece of skepticism than to believe there is no such thing as matter ? Phil .: Softly ...
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... imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a loadstone , could ever be discovered by argu- ments a priori . In like manner , when an effect is supposed to depend upon an intricate ma- chinery or secret structure of ...
... imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a loadstone , could ever be discovered by argu- ments a priori . In like manner , when an effect is supposed to depend upon an intricate ma- chinery or secret structure of ...
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... imagine or conceive ; because I have assumed that all these were nothing . Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat . But per- haps it is true that these same things which ...
... imagine or conceive ; because I have assumed that all these were nothing . Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat . But per- haps it is true that these same things which ...
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Socratic Wisdom 2 Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy Suggestions for Further Reading Part II Philosophy of Religion Introduction Can we pr... | 1 |
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument | 2 |
The Watch and the Watchmaker | 3 |
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