Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... complete and exact form required to reveal their validity . Few mistakes of inference would occur if they did . It does mean that they acquire a vague sense of what that form would be , and gradually develop the habit of respecting it ...
... complete and exact form required to reveal their validity . Few mistakes of inference would occur if they did . It does mean that they acquire a vague sense of what that form would be , and gradually develop the habit of respecting it ...
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... complete the syllogism by denying dis- one of the alternatives : He did not commit it . .. He derived benefit from it . He did not derive benefit from it . .. He committed it . But if we try to complete it by affirming one of the ...
... complete the syllogism by denying dis- one of the alternatives : He did not commit it . .. He derived benefit from it . He did not derive benefit from it . .. He committed it . But if we try to complete it by affirming one of the ...
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... complete , and in the nature of the case can never be made complete , ultimately dependent as we are on stupendous me- chanical forces which in their totality we cannot possibly wield . But in our consciousness of this vast mechanical ...
... complete , and in the nature of the case can never be made complete , ultimately dependent as we are on stupendous me- chanical forces which in their totality we cannot possibly wield . But in our consciousness of this vast mechanical ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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