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... experience . The experiences are the real things ; the notions are secondary and derivative . It is dangerous to forget this , and to take these secondary things as more concrete and real than they actually are . This is , of course ...
... experience . The experiences are the real things ; the notions are secondary and derivative . It is dangerous to forget this , and to take these secondary things as more concrete and real than they actually are . This is , of course ...
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... experience of it - or , if you insist on profes- sionalizing it , on experiments . And we can never describe in words the total content of any experience or experiment . Like a portrait painter , we can capture some aspects of our ...
... experience of it - or , if you insist on profes- sionalizing it , on experiments . And we can never describe in words the total content of any experience or experiment . Like a portrait painter , we can capture some aspects of our ...
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... experience suggests that systematic operational research would give results . But it is more called for in newer fields of endeavour , such as the development of backward or colonial countries . If one sets out to raise the standard of ...
... experience suggests that systematic operational research would give results . But it is more called for in newer fields of endeavour , such as the development of backward or colonial countries . If one sets out to raise the standard of ...
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