Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1928 - 590 pages |
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... discover how we can be more alert to question those ideas pressing upon us that are really untrustworthy , and ( since none of us personally has time to investigate everything ) where we can turn for the most depend- able information on ...
... discover how we can be more alert to question those ideas pressing upon us that are really untrustworthy , and ( since none of us personally has time to investigate everything ) where we can turn for the most depend- able information on ...
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... discover to be far less adequate than those we might have reached had our thinking been wiser and more secure ! The answer , indeed , is the same as should be given to the question , why ever reflect at all ? Did we get into no ...
... discover to be far less adequate than those we might have reached had our thinking been wiser and more secure ! The answer , indeed , is the same as should be given to the question , why ever reflect at all ? Did we get into no ...
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... discover , but which when grasped gave control over a thousand situations where the former was applicable to only one . It is by such advance from particular and limited rules of thumb to abstract under- lying laws of universal scope ...
... discover , but which when grasped gave control over a thousand situations where the former was applicable to only one . It is by such advance from particular and limited rules of thumb to abstract under- lying laws of universal scope ...
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... discover new means is a continuous process . What we have found most enjoyable determines what at any given time we most clearly desire . What we desire in turn determines the nature of the ambiguity which novel stimuli show and guides ...
... discover new means is a continuous process . What we have found most enjoyable determines what at any given time we most clearly desire . What we desire in turn determines the nature of the ambiguity which novel stimuli show and guides ...
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... discover more . Gradually more and more of the world of man's interest is covered by them . No side of life is left wholly the prey of caprice and fancy . The order in which this . expansion takes place is determined mainly by the ...
... discover more . Gradually more and more of the world of man's interest is covered by them . No side of life is left wholly the prey of caprice and fancy . The order in which this . expansion takes place is determined mainly by the ...
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Page 504 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated...
Page 458 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 543 - Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
Page 417 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Page 530 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate ah1 these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Page 504 - The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
Page 417 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 323 - The standard deviation, mathematically, is the square root of the average of the squares of the deviations of the individual cases from the mean.
Page 483 - To sustain this statute would not be, in our judgment, a recognition of the lawful exertion of congressional authority over interstate commerce, but would sanction an invasion by the Federal power of the control of a matter purely local in its character and over which no authority has been delegated to Congress in conferring the power to regulate commerce among the States.
Page 479 - ... have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock post meridian, or before the hour of six o'clock ante meridian, during any portion of the taxable year...