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... ultimate success. What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world, for the medieval mind, was the invisible one: that toward which ...
... ultimate success. What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world, for the medieval mind, was the invisible one: that toward which ...
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... ultimate' particles elude direct observation: so what is innermost and inaccessible, even in physics, cannot be said to be unreal, much less may it be called wholly subjective, however well preserved its secret. In short, innerness is ...
... ultimate' particles elude direct observation: so what is innermost and inaccessible, even in physics, cannot be said to be unreal, much less may it be called wholly subjective, however well preserved its secret. In short, innerness is ...
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... ultimate goals are now at last visible. First: he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life, since, according to mechanistic doctrine, there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines, provided that ...
... ultimate goals are now at last visible. First: he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life, since, according to mechanistic doctrine, there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines, provided that ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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