Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... practical welfare . The natural checks to continued acceptance do not operate in their case , while on the other hand two very impor- tant psychological factors strongly support continued loyalty to tradition . In the first place , the ...
... practical welfare . The natural checks to continued acceptance do not operate in their case , while on the other hand two very impor- tant psychological factors strongly support continued loyalty to tradition . In the first place , the ...
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... practical concerns . The members of such a class having keen powers of analysis and constructive imagination are able by reason of their emancipation from eco- nomic pursuits to attack the more general problems arising from a comparison ...
... practical concerns . The members of such a class having keen powers of analysis and constructive imagination are able by reason of their emancipation from eco- nomic pursuits to attack the more general problems arising from a comparison ...
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... practical concern . This is not universally the case , of course . In the most important profession of medicine quackery still abounds , and hosts of people turn to magic rather than to sci- ence . Yet there is much excuse here in the ...
... practical concern . This is not universally the case , of course . In the most important profession of medicine quackery still abounds , and hosts of people turn to magic rather than to sci- ence . Yet there is much excuse here in the ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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