Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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Page 28
... possible is to embrace sheer chance in pref- erence to definite guidance , and to defend such procedure as an adequate general technique of ordering one's life is surely a badge of irrationality . There are doubtless cases covered by ...
... possible is to embrace sheer chance in pref- erence to definite guidance , and to defend such procedure as an adequate general technique of ordering one's life is surely a badge of irrationality . There are doubtless cases covered by ...
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... possible only vague comparisons of greater and less , we have an exact series making possible any degree of exactitude our instruments of measurement and of calculation permit . To be able to reason about facts by locating them in a ...
... possible only vague comparisons of greater and less , we have an exact series making possible any degree of exactitude our instruments of measurement and of calculation permit . To be able to reason about facts by locating them in a ...
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... possible prediction and control , nor discover traces of causal order . Such a world would be what we mean by the word chaos . It is obvious that so far as our present knowledge goes many events in nature are connected in this quite ...
... possible prediction and control , nor discover traces of causal order . Such a world would be what we mean by the word chaos . It is obvious that so far as our present knowledge goes many events in nature are connected in this quite ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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