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... observed, correctly interpreting The Scientific Outlook,' "is essentially power thought — the sort of thought that ... observation of the planets in astrology. Now astrology had long before been condemned by Saint Augustine and other ...
... observed, correctly interpreting The Scientific Outlook,' "is essentially power thought — the sort of thought that ... observation of the planets in astrology. Now astrology had long before been condemned by Saint Augustine and other ...
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... observed, it still remains without "blue, yellow, bitter, sweet, beauty, delight, sorrow" — in short, without the most vivid reports of human experience. Existen- tially, the scientific world picture is still under-dimensioned; because ...
... observed, it still remains without "blue, yellow, bitter, sweet, beauty, delight, sorrow" — in short, without the most vivid reports of human experience. Existen- tially, the scientific world picture is still under-dimensioned; because ...
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... observed, since the observation itself deforms — as biologists and physicists have now discovered — the nature of what is observed. The remedy for this embarrassment is a human one, and it was left to a poet to express it. In 'A ...
... observed, since the observation itself deforms — as biologists and physicists have now discovered — the nature of what is observed. The remedy for this embarrassment is a human one, and it was left to a poet to express it. In 'A ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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