Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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Page 168
... Accordingly , we cannot shirk the responsibility of analyzing the conditions of correct reasoning in syllogisms of this kind . Some of the principles determining these conditions have been noted in passing in our discussion of ...
... Accordingly , we cannot shirk the responsibility of analyzing the conditions of correct reasoning in syllogisms of this kind . Some of the principles determining these conditions have been noted in passing in our discussion of ...
Page 337
... accordingly to appeal from tradition to experiment . The famous leaning tower of Pisa furnished a splendid laboratory for the experiments by which Galileo soon showed that there was no truth in the ancient as- sumption at all . Dropping ...
... accordingly to appeal from tradition to experiment . The famous leaning tower of Pisa furnished a splendid laboratory for the experiments by which Galileo soon showed that there was no truth in the ancient as- sumption at all . Dropping ...
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... Accordingly when , with all the data before me , I discover that one of the companies offers its cheapest passage at a rate slightly lower than that of any other company , I have reached a specific and irrefutable answer to my problem ...
... Accordingly when , with all the data before me , I discover that one of the companies offers its cheapest passage at a rate slightly lower than that of any other company , I have reached a specific and irrefutable answer to my problem ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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