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... stage of man's development , and the result is philosophy , which may be described as the offspring of the conscious endeavour to reconstruct the given world of perceptive experience- the world found constructed in actuality - according ...
... stage of man's development , and the result is philosophy , which may be described as the offspring of the conscious endeavour to reconstruct the given world of perceptive experience- the world found constructed in actuality - according ...
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... stage refined and presented in a quasi - philosophised guise , or supported by philosophical arguments , does not alter their intrinsic character . The radical distinction between philosophy and special science lies in that while the ...
... stage refined and presented in a quasi - philosophised guise , or supported by philosophical arguments , does not alter their intrinsic character . The radical distinction between philosophy and special science lies in that while the ...
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... stages in the history of philosophy , we must guard ourselves from reading into systems ideas pertaining to later phases in the evolution of thought . There is a difficulty for many of us , ac- customed as we are to modern rules of ...
... stages in the history of philosophy , we must guard ourselves from reading into systems ideas pertaining to later phases in the evolution of thought . There is a difficulty for many of us , ac- customed as we are to modern rules of ...
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... stages of human culture ; but this would appear scarcely compatible with those which credit him with a comparatively high degree of scientific attainment . ANAXIMANDROS . Anaximandros , or , as it is usually Anglicised , Anaxi- mander ...
... stages of human culture ; but this would appear scarcely compatible with those which credit him with a comparatively high degree of scientific attainment . ANAXIMANDROS . Anaximandros , or , as it is usually Anglicised , Anaxi- mander ...
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... stages at least he favoured the Lacedemonian policy , while his known intimacy with Kritias naturally threw grave suspicion on his teaching . As Thirlwall remarks , the strangeness consists not in the fact of the conviction , but in the ...
... stages at least he favoured the Lacedemonian policy , while his known intimacy with Kritias naturally threw grave suspicion on his teaching . As Thirlwall remarks , the strangeness consists not in the fact of the conviction , but in the ...
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Page 199 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.