Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... verification for all problems . This fact gives rise to serious jective reflective difficulties to be faced in the final part of the book . None the less no belief can be considered completely and sat- isfactorily verified as long as ...
... verification for all problems . This fact gives rise to serious jective reflective difficulties to be faced in the final part of the book . None the less no belief can be considered completely and sat- isfactorily verified as long as ...
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... verify such inclusive laws as these , or theories , as they are lem of often called to distinguish them from specific laws . They are not verified directly , as is the case with the latter , but only indi- rectly through the verification ...
... verify such inclusive laws as these , or theories , as they are lem of often called to distinguish them from specific laws . They are not verified directly , as is the case with the latter , but only indi- rectly through the verification ...
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... verified laws of inorganic nature may accordingly be really correlational in the sense that their universality for our observation arises from the fact that these laws as verified always relate large aggregates of units in the form of ...
... verified laws of inorganic nature may accordingly be really correlational in the sense that their universality for our observation arises from the fact that these laws as verified always relate large aggregates of units in the form of ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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