Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism Together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James, Page 464"To avoid any misunderstanding as to the scope of the present book, let me say at the outset that with the exception of the Appendix, it is a critique, rather than a history. I have attempted not merely to summarize, but to estimate, present philosophical tendencies; and my criticism is throughout based on the realistic philosophy which I set forth constructively only at the end"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... Observation 286 7. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing the Contents of Another Mind . 286 8. The Difficulty of Observing Mental Content . The Case of Perception . 289 9. Proprio - ceptive Sensations . 292 10. The Content of Desire ...
... Observation 286 7. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing the Contents of Another Mind . 286 8. The Difficulty of Observing Mental Content . The Case of Perception . 289 9. Proprio - ceptive Sensations . 292 10. The Content of Desire ...
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... observe and regulate the human drama enacted at the centre . Man's fall and redemption were the very theme of nature , the key to its interpretation ; and the earth as the scene of these transactions was its true centre . Now let it be ...
... observe and regulate the human drama enacted at the centre . Man's fall and redemption were the very theme of nature , the key to its interpretation ; and the earth as the scene of these transactions was its true centre . Now let it be ...
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... exigency , at any rate , it proved more efficacious to cultivate the soil and observe the turn of the seasons than to sacrifice to Demeter , to keep one's powder dry than to put one's trust 26 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES.
... exigency , at any rate , it proved more efficacious to cultivate the soil and observe the turn of the seasons than to sacrifice to Demeter , to keep one's powder dry than to put one's trust 26 PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCIES.
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... observe , regardless of their hopes and fears . Astronomy was probably the first science in the modern sense , because the stars , at once conspicuous and relatively removed from the theatre of action , have always tended to excite an ...
... observe , regardless of their hopes and fears . Astronomy was probably the first science in the modern sense , because the stars , at once conspicuous and relatively removed from the theatre of action , have always tended to excite an ...
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... observation rather than the method of mathe- matical deduction . Locke , to whom the movement owed its ascendancy in the eighteenth century , was associated with the experimental physicists of his day , and was sus- picious of a priori ...
... observation rather than the method of mathe- matical deduction . Locke , to whom the movement owed its ascendancy in the eighteenth century , was associated with the experimental physicists of his day , and was sus- picious of a priori ...
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