Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... answers to this question The conse- Leaving aside the answer of the sceptics , who have doubted the existence of any such general test , the three most influential answers to this problem are the theory of correspondence , the theory of ...
... answers to this question The conse- Leaving aside the answer of the sceptics , who have doubted the existence of any such general test , the three most influential answers to this problem are the theory of correspondence , the theory of ...
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... answer pretty nearly . All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666 , for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention , and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than any time since.1 Newton saw clearly the ...
... answer pretty nearly . All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666 , for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention , and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than any time since.1 Newton saw clearly the ...
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... answer such a question as easily or as confidently ? You or I might be able to answer at once which city we individually prefer , but we should recognize that the factors rated highly in our comparison would not be rated so highly by ...
... answer such a question as easily or as confidently ? You or I might be able to answer at once which city we individually prefer , but we should recognize that the factors rated highly in our comparison would not be rated so highly by ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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