Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James |
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... consists of the manifold things that can be taken for granted for the purposes of everyday life . Common sense must be true to be useful ; but it would still not be useful unless it were habitually and implicitly trusted . Technical ...
... consists of the manifold things that can be taken for granted for the purposes of everyday life . Common sense must be true to be useful ; but it would still not be useful unless it were habitually and implicitly trusted . Technical ...
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... consists in its so meeting or modifying circum- stance as to satisfy interest . Circumstance will accord- ingly evoke one or the other of two types of right or intelligent response . It will be resisted or evaded , disliked or feared ...
... consists in its so meeting or modifying circum- stance as to satisfy interest . Circumstance will accord- ingly evoke one or the other of two types of right or intelligent response . It will be resisted or evaded , disliked or feared ...
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... consists neither of " abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number , ' nor of " experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence , " must be committed to the flames : " for it can contain nothing but sophistry and ...
... consists neither of " abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number , ' nor of " experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence , " must be committed to the flames : " for it can contain nothing but sophistry and ...
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... consist of the position alone . There is something which is at the position , or bears to the position the relation of " occupancy . ' Again , it is essential to bodies that they have a history , and thus occupy time as well as space ...
... consist of the position alone . There is something which is at the position , or bears to the position the relation of " occupancy . ' Again , it is essential to bodies that they have a history , and thus occupy time as well as space ...
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... consists in the failure to recognize the difference between the simplicity that precedes analysis , and the simplicity 1 For this and the following error , cf. also below , pp . 261-264 , 279–283 . that is revealed by analysis ; between ...
... consists in the failure to recognize the difference between the simplicity that precedes analysis , and the simplicity 1 For this and the following error , cf. also below , pp . 261-264 , 279–283 . that is revealed by analysis ; between ...
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