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... Values - Discussion of the philosophical nature of the world we live in - things or processes ? - has been unfashionable both for academic philosophers and for ordinary people . Discussing the other main questions in philosophy , about ...
... Values - Discussion of the philosophical nature of the world we live in - things or processes ? - has been unfashionable both for academic philosophers and for ordinary people . Discussing the other main questions in philosophy , about ...
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... value in themselves , but values exist and from this fact one can deduce the existence of God ; this would be a - q - y . And so on . There are eight possible combinations , and nearly all of them have been believed by some people ...
... value in themselves , but values exist and from this fact one can deduce the existence of God ; this would be a - q - y . And so on . There are eight possible combinations , and nearly all of them have been believed by some people ...
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... values in accordance with subjective goals which have been arrived at in various ways . In general , through the bulk of the series of matrices , most of the signifi- cance values will have to be estimated by intuitive judgement , since ...
... values in accordance with subjective goals which have been arrived at in various ways . In general , through the bulk of the series of matrices , most of the signifi- cance values will have to be estimated by intuitive judgement , since ...
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