Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... entire body of nonvoters , so that statistics developed from its examination should hold within a narrow margin of error for the entire group of nonvoters . How was this to be done ? Well , the census records gave facts which made it ...
... entire body of nonvoters , so that statistics developed from its examination should hold within a narrow margin of error for the entire group of nonvoters . How was this to be done ? Well , the census records gave facts which made it ...
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... entire sample will fairly represent the whole . When an in- possible spector examines a carload of wheat , he samples the grain at and no random from different parts of the car , for there seems to be circum- no reason why a sufficient ...
... entire sample will fairly represent the whole . When an in- possible spector examines a carload of wheat , he samples the grain at and no random from different parts of the car , for there seems to be circum- no reason why a sufficient ...
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... entire act of thought , namely the purpose of finding the least expensive mode of trans- portation to England . Accordingly when , with all the data before me , I discover that one of the companies offers its cheapest passage at a rate ...
... entire act of thought , namely the purpose of finding the least expensive mode of trans- portation to England . Accordingly when , with all the data before me , I discover that one of the companies offers its cheapest passage at a rate ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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