Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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Page 84
... ideas of no value for the difficulty in hand insist on ap- pearing . With others , concentration is much more complete and persistent , so that only when the problem has continued to baffle for a long time , does its mastery over the ...
... ideas of no value for the difficulty in hand insist on ap- pearing . With others , concentration is much more complete and persistent , so that only when the problem has continued to baffle for a long time , does its mastery over the ...
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... idea on the rest of our ideas . Where this is not the case - where some ideas are isolated from the rest and move on self - enclosed assumptions - the attempt to deal with any problem involving such ideas is weak and uncertain , because ...
... idea on the rest of our ideas . Where this is not the case - where some ideas are isolated from the rest and move on self - enclosed assumptions - the attempt to deal with any problem involving such ideas is weak and uncertain , because ...
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... ideas , flows with unalterable geo- How metrical necessity - it is surely difficult to suppose that Spinoza far this ... ideas , while his acceptance of the current metaphysical dualism of mind and matter involved the belief that our ...
... ideas , flows with unalterable geo- How metrical necessity - it is surely difficult to suppose that Spinoza far this ... ideas , while his acceptance of the current metaphysical dualism of mind and matter involved the belief that our ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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