Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... revealed in objective form . To assume otherwise is to assume that one's own perception and judgment , or those of ... reveal the essential place in verification of the principle of objectivity . Histori- cal in- terrela- tion of - these ...
... revealed in objective form . To assume otherwise is to assume that one's own perception and judgment , or those of ... reveal the essential place in verification of the principle of objectivity . Histori- cal in- terrela- tion of - these ...
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... revealed in the endless rear- rangements of their internal parts . Functional explanations replace and absorb causal ones , and a few functional relations most pervasively revealed in the behavior of the elements be- come the axioms ...
... revealed in the endless rear- rangements of their internal parts . Functional explanations replace and absorb causal ones , and a few functional relations most pervasively revealed in the behavior of the elements be- come the axioms ...
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... revealed in your procedure . ( The prin- ciple of parsimony will usually be revealed in such a form as this : " If I follow this key I can make sense out of all the words but two , and those two will have to be regarded as following ...
... revealed in your procedure . ( The prin- ciple of parsimony will usually be revealed in such a form as this : " If I follow this key I can make sense out of all the words but two , and those two will have to be regarded as following ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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