Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1928 - 590 pages |
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... less likely . So I command them to sit in the bottom , and steer directly for the drifting barrel . As we approach , two other important ques- tions need an answer . Is the boy self - possessed , or is he so nervous and excited that he ...
... less likely . So I command them to sit in the bottom , and steer directly for the drifting barrel . As we approach , two other important ques- tions need an answer . Is the boy self - possessed , or is he so nervous and excited that he ...
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... less adequate than those we might have reached had our thinking been wiser and more secure ! The answer , indeed , is the same as should be given to the question , why ever reflect at all ? Did we get into no difficulties , or had we ...
... less adequate than those we might have reached had our thinking been wiser and more secure ! The answer , indeed , is the same as should be given to the question , why ever reflect at all ? Did we get into no difficulties , or had we ...
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... less we are apt to be satisfied , in situations where urgent practical . beliefs ? pressure is absent , with beliefs that turn out in time to have been quite false and undependable . But is this a matter of such great moment ? Do not ...
... less we are apt to be satisfied , in situations where urgent practical . beliefs ? pressure is absent , with beliefs that turn out in time to have been quite false and undependable . But is this a matter of such great moment ? Do not ...
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... less radical ones prove a failure . It will first simply bend over to one side , then reverse the direction of its ciliary action , then contract vigorously upon its stem , and finally , if the stimulus continues and none of these ...
... less radical ones prove a failure . It will first simply bend over to one side , then reverse the direction of its ciliary action , then contract vigorously upon its stem , and finally , if the stimulus continues and none of these ...
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... less secure results . And the main lesson is that every appearance , in the course of evolution , of a variation which enables this sort of learning to be achieved more efficiently , gives its possessor a distinct advantage in ...
... less secure results . And the main lesson is that every appearance , in the course of evolution , of a variation which enables this sort of learning to be achieved more efficiently , gives its possessor a distinct advantage in ...
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Page 541 - Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
Page 502 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 502 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated...
Page 415 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 502 - ... interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government.
Page 477 - ... any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, situated in the United States, in which within thirty days prior to the removal of such product therefrom children under the age of fourteen years have been employed or permitted to work...
Page 526 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 477 - ... years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day, or more than six days in any week...
Page 502 - From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results ; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
Page 422 - Newton, with some others of that strain, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...