Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... definite deductions ; and second , that its consequences thus deducible furnish a clear and unambiguous guide to further observation or action . A suggestion without these characteristics is at most a barren intuition , it cannot ...
... definite deductions ; and second , that its consequences thus deducible furnish a clear and unambiguous guide to further observation or action . A suggestion without these characteristics is at most a barren intuition , it cannot ...
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... definite and vague quan- tity in these cases , such as the impossibility of arguing from the falsity of the greater to the falsity of the less , or from the truth of the less to the truth of the greater . Precisely the same principle ...
... definite and vague quan- tity in these cases , such as the impossibility of arguing from the falsity of the greater to the falsity of the less , or from the truth of the less to the truth of the greater . Precisely the same principle ...
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... definite quan- tity of such a magnitude . Either magnitude may be considered a function of the other , but since in any given statement of their relation one must be arbitrarily regarded as primary and the other viewed as its function ...
... definite quan- tity of such a magnitude . Either magnitude may be considered a function of the other , but since in any given statement of their relation one must be arbitrarily regarded as primary and the other viewed as its function ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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