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... belief , or no - belief , of his particular time , with- out caring to inquire what were the ideas of the countless generations which preceded , or what are likely to be the ideas of the generations which will follow . However firm may ...
... belief , or no - belief , of his particular time , with- out caring to inquire what were the ideas of the countless generations which preceded , or what are likely to be the ideas of the generations which will follow . However firm may ...
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... belief by observing that moisture is essential to animal and vegetable life : pro- bably it was also from the fact that water supplies the most obvious example of the transmutation of matter under its three forms , solid , fluid and ...
... belief by observing that moisture is essential to animal and vegetable life : pro- bably it was also from the fact that water supplies the most obvious example of the transmutation of matter under its three forms , solid , fluid and ...
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... belief in the phenomenal world . Parmenides must be right in denying motion and multiplicity , for their as- sertion leads to self - contradiction . Zeno was in conse- quence called the inventor of Dialectic . His arguments , especially ...
... belief in the phenomenal world . Parmenides must be right in denying motion and multiplicity , for their as- sertion leads to self - contradiction . Zeno was in conse- quence called the inventor of Dialectic . His arguments , especially ...
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... belief however seems to have been that reported by Horace- -deus immortalis haberi dum cupit Empedocles , ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit . Returning now to Ionia , we see the effect of the Eleatic school in the speculations of ...
... belief however seems to have been that reported by Horace- -deus immortalis haberi dum cupit Empedocles , ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit . Returning now to Ionia , we see the effect of the Eleatic school in the speculations of ...
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... believing that the investigation would lead to the discovery of the truth . Between these and Socrates , the great regenerator of philosophy , is interposed the sceptical or Sophistic era . ' 1 Αγαθὸν οὐ τὸ μὴ ἀδικέειν , ἀλλὰ τὸ μηδὲ ...
... believing that the investigation would lead to the discovery of the truth . Between these and Socrates , the great regenerator of philosophy , is interposed the sceptical or Sophistic era . ' 1 Αγαθὸν οὐ τὸ μὴ ἀδικέειν , ἀλλὰ τὸ μηδὲ ...
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