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... images thrown off from bodies external to us , and entering in through the pores . These images were a kind of film consisting of the surface atoms which were continually floating off from all bodies without any disturbance of their ...
... images thrown off from bodies external to us , and entering in through the pores . These images were a kind of film consisting of the surface atoms which were continually floating off from all bodies without any disturbance of their ...
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... images things mathematical abstractions ideas Mental εἰκασία , πίστις , operation . conjecture . faith . diávola , discur- sive reasoning , starting from hypotheses . vónois , intui- tion , which tests hypo- theses by the aid of dia ...
... images things mathematical abstractions ideas Mental εἰκασία , πίστις , operation . conjecture . faith . diávola , discur- sive reasoning , starting from hypotheses . vónois , intui- tion , which tests hypo- theses by the aid of dia ...
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... images of beauty , but realities ( for he has hold not of an image , but of a reality ) , and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God , and be immortal , if mortal man may ? " Selfishness . ' The greatest ...
... images of beauty , but realities ( for he has hold not of an image , but of a reality ) , and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God , and be immortal , if mortal man may ? " Selfishness . ' The greatest ...
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... images ; will they be- lieve them to be real ? Will not their eyes be dazzled , and will they not try to get away from the light to something which they are able to behold without blinking ? And suppose further , that they are dragged ...
... images ; will they be- lieve them to be real ? Will not their eyes be dazzled , and will they not try to get away from the light to something which they are able to behold without blinking ? And suppose further , that they are dragged ...
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... images or shadows of images which they behold in them ; he cannot enter into the ideas of those who have never in their lives understood the relation of the shadow to the substance . Now blindness is of two kinds , and may be caused ...
... images or shadows of images which they behold in them ; he cannot enter into the ideas of those who have never in their lives understood the relation of the shadow to the substance . Now blindness is of two kinds , and may be caused ...
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