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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... question may always be in the foreground of study . I have assumed it to be more important to discover whether certain current views were true or false than to discuss with painstaking nicety the question of their attribution ...
... question may always be in the foreground of study . I have assumed it to be more important to discover whether certain current views were true or false than to discuss with painstaking nicety the question of their attribution ...
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... practice , he enjoys a certain irresponsibility . To him is allotted the task of examining a question on its merits , without reference to ulterior motives . He is permitted a certain play of 8 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES.
... practice , he enjoys a certain irresponsibility . To him is allotted the task of examining a question on its merits , without reference to ulterior motives . He is permitted a certain play of 8 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES.
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... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence ...
... question on the strength of Scripture texts that are susceptible of a thousand different interpre- tations , for the words of Scripture are not so strictly limited in their significance as the phenomena of nature . " But this defence ...
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... questions . It would seem to follow that society is in special need of avoiding a hasty assimilation of such theory . And yet the words which it ordinarily employs are words which symbolize to mankind their most trusted and cherished ...
... questions . It would seem to follow that society is in special need of avoiding a hasty assimilation of such theory . And yet the words which it ordinarily employs are words which symbolize to mankind their most trusted and cherished ...
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... questions with religion . Those philosophers who are governed by the theo- retical motive , and to whom philosophy is first of all a disinterested attempt at exact knowledge , tend to identify it with science ; those on the other hand ...
... questions with religion . Those philosophers who are governed by the theo- retical motive , and to whom philosophy is first of all a disinterested attempt at exact knowledge , tend to identify it with science ; those on the other hand ...
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