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Page 1601
... knowledge . Antiquaries stood convinced of the truth in Voltaire's pronounce- ment that to attain knowledge is the most humanly directable factor in the search for a good life . Both attainment of knowledge and dissemination of it for ...
... knowledge . Antiquaries stood convinced of the truth in Voltaire's pronounce- ment that to attain knowledge is the most humanly directable factor in the search for a good life . Both attainment of knowledge and dissemination of it for ...
Page 1739
... knowledge which is possible to it . One fact is clear , however ; almost all of the peripatetic psychologists of the seventeenth century follow Aristotle and Aquinas in rejecting innate ideas , and they maintain that at birth man's mind ...
... knowledge which is possible to it . One fact is clear , however ; almost all of the peripatetic psychologists of the seventeenth century follow Aristotle and Aquinas in rejecting innate ideas , and they maintain that at birth man's mind ...
Page 1740
... knowledge by giving body to principles , so that reason presented with sense data eventually is as well equipped as if it had started out with innate ideas in the first place . To this argument the opponents of peri- pateticism ...
... knowledge by giving body to principles , so that reason presented with sense data eventually is as well equipped as if it had started out with innate ideas in the first place . To this argument the opponents of peri- pateticism ...
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