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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... practical risk in the exposure of belief to the variability of theory , that risk will be peculiarly great in the case of philosophy . And there is also a peculiar liability to confusion here , because theoretical philosophy has never ...
... practical risk in the exposure of belief to the variability of theory , that risk will be peculiarly great in the case of philosophy . And there is also a peculiar liability to confusion here , because theoretical philosophy has never ...
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... practical orienta- tion that dominated the imagination and justified the plans of Christendom . Never in the history of European civ- ilization has common sense been so comprehensive and so highly unified as it was in Galileo's day ...
... practical orienta- tion that dominated the imagination and justified the plans of Christendom . Never in the history of European civ- ilization has common sense been so comprehensive and so highly unified as it was in Galileo's day ...
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... practical purposes now their world , in which they had built their home and laid their plans , and which was endeared to them by every tradition and association . Surely , whatever the Inquisi- tion may have been guilty of , it was not ...
... practical purposes now their world , in which they had built their home and laid their plans , and which was endeared to them by every tradition and association . Surely , whatever the Inquisi- tion may have been guilty of , it was not ...
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... practical purposes to adhere steadfastly even to doubtful opinions , once they are adopted ; " imitating in this the example of travellers who , when they have lost their way in a forest , ought not to wander from side to side , far ...
... practical purposes to adhere steadfastly even to doubtful opinions , once they are adopted ; " imitating in this the example of travellers who , when they have lost their way in a forest , ought not to wander from side to side , far ...
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... practical doubt . When the transition is made from believing to theorizing , the loss is certain ; and he who lightly encour- ages such a transition is guilty of recklessness and irrespon- sibility . It is a grave matter to substitute ...
... practical doubt . When the transition is made from believing to theorizing , the loss is certain ; and he who lightly encour- ages such a transition is guilty of recklessness and irrespon- sibility . It is a grave matter to substitute ...
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