Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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Page 107
... meaning . Meanings depends compose an organic system ; they can be analyzed and combined nature in ways which they themselves dictate . Furthermore , it is clear of that to think by the aid of ideas is to live in a world whose meaning ...
... meaning . Meanings depends compose an organic system ; they can be analyzed and combined nature in ways which they themselves dictate . Furthermore , it is clear of that to think by the aid of ideas is to live in a world whose meaning ...
Page 108
... meaning , and that their meanings bind them together in an implicative system , some aspect of whose structure is bared whenever we pass from premises to their deduced conclusion . The meanings of " animal " and " dog " are such that we ...
... meaning , and that their meanings bind them together in an implicative system , some aspect of whose structure is bared whenever we pass from premises to their deduced conclusion . The meanings of " animal " and " dog " are such that we ...
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... meaning ? Most vague of all are the very ab- stract conceptions " good , " " satisfaction , " " happiness , " etc. , under which we try to include all other ends and which in some sense we are always pursuing in every problem . Next in ...
... meaning ? Most vague of all are the very ab- stract conceptions " good , " " satisfaction , " " happiness , " etc. , under which we try to include all other ends and which in some sense we are always pursuing in every problem . Next in ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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