Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... express in terms of the medium before him a compelling emotion ; the philosopher seeking a system of con- ceptions by which the entire baffling panorama of his experience may be at one fell swoop interpreted - these illustrate in the ...
... express in terms of the medium before him a compelling emotion ; the philosopher seeking a system of con- ceptions by which the entire baffling panorama of his experience may be at one fell swoop interpreted - these illustrate in the ...
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... express these two possibilities in a single formula ? This can be done simply if we put the statement in negative form : There is no S that is not P. To say thus that no member of S is outside of P is the same as to say that either the ...
... express these two possibilities in a single formula ? This can be done simply if we put the statement in negative form : There is no S that is not P. To say thus that no member of S is outside of P is the same as to say that either the ...
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... express the result in terms of a correlation coefficient , but merely record in statistical form the frequency with which the two have been found connected and the number and circumstances of the observations on which the record is ...
... express the result in terms of a correlation coefficient , but merely record in statistical form the frequency with which the two have been found connected and the number and circumstances of the observations on which the record is ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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