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Even so , throughout his writings we find a tendency to regard experience as the grand source of values and doctrines . He was certainly an empiricist in the sense that he considered an experiential test more important in evaluating the ...
Even so , throughout his writings we find a tendency to regard experience as the grand source of values and doctrines . He was certainly an empiricist in the sense that he considered an experiential test more important in evaluating the ...
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For in the empiricist philosophy the end product can be no more divorced from real experience than the original concepts . In science , then , an empiricist begins by making experiments with his own hands , then constructing concepts ...
For in the empiricist philosophy the end product can be no more divorced from real experience than the original concepts . In science , then , an empiricist begins by making experiments with his own hands , then constructing concepts ...
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Experience certainly showed that they were not , because anyone could observe that “ negroes , who are free [ and ] live among the white people , ... are generally improvident and poor . ” But experience must always be interpreted by ...
Experience certainly showed that they were not , because anyone could observe that “ negroes , who are free [ and ] live among the white people , ... are generally improvident and poor . ” But experience must always be interpreted by ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 27 |
THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE | 68 |
SELFIMPROVEMENT AND MUTUAL | 112 |
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| Title | Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition Makers of the American tradition series |
| Author | I. Bernard Cohen |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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