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... writing possessing any speculative interest is that of Lao - tse , born B.C. 604 , and the main position of which is practically identical with that of Indian Metaphysic , though alleged to have been uninfluenced by it ; but there is ...
... writing possessing any speculative interest is that of Lao - tse , born B.C. 604 , and the main position of which is practically identical with that of Indian Metaphysic , though alleged to have been uninfluenced by it ; but there is ...
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... writing . Add to this , that the earliest Pythagorean fragments probably date from a century after Pythagoras's time , and the difficulty of ar- riving at true Pythagoreanism with certainty , at present , will be sufficiently apparent ...
... writing . Add to this , that the earliest Pythagorean fragments probably date from a century after Pythagoras's time , and the difficulty of ar- riving at true Pythagoreanism with certainty , at present , will be sufficiently apparent ...
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... writing or not . According to Aristotle , he originally belonged to the Eleatic school . The real literary founder of the school , Demokritos , who is described as a pupil of Leukippus , flourished about half a century later than ...
... writing or not . According to Aristotle , he originally belonged to the Eleatic school . The real literary founder of the school , Demokritos , who is described as a pupil of Leukippus , flourished about half a century later than ...
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... writings are attributed to Aristippus , as to Euklid , but they have completely perished in both cases . The creator of the Cynic school , or rather sect , was the Athenian Antisthenes , who , after an education at the hands of Gorgias ...
... writings are attributed to Aristippus , as to Euklid , but they have completely perished in both cases . The creator of the Cynic school , or rather sect , was the Athenian Antisthenes , who , after an education at the hands of Gorgias ...
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... writing , and all that has been handed down from them consists of personal anecdotes , miscellaneous maxims and , to modern ears , somewhat feeble witticisms . THIRD EPOCH . PLATO AND ARISTOTLE . THIS third epoch 50 [ EPOCH II . GREEK ...
... writing , and all that has been handed down from them consists of personal anecdotes , miscellaneous maxims and , to modern ears , somewhat feeble witticisms . THIRD EPOCH . PLATO AND ARISTOTLE . THIS third epoch 50 [ EPOCH II . GREEK ...
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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.