Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1928 - 590 pages |
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... . What attitude ought we to take in the light of these considerations ? Is it not vitally important to learn , not only to think as correctly as possible when life thrusts us into a practical issue which forces us to think , but 18.
... . What attitude ought we to take in the light of these considerations ? Is it not vitally important to learn , not only to think as correctly as possible when life thrusts us into a practical issue which forces us to think , but 18.
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... forces us to think , but also to remold our habits so as to deal most helpfully with the mass of be- liefs whose truth we tend to assume confidently without testing , and with those situations in which we have to take for granted some ...
... forces us to think , but also to remold our habits so as to deal most helpfully with the mass of be- liefs whose truth we tend to assume confidently without testing , and with those situations in which we have to take for granted some ...
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... force him to deal with the second button , the first was re- moved , but he still showed a tendency to finger about the place where it had been . This experiment shows that it is possible to observe , and profit in future action by the ...
... force him to deal with the second button , the first was re- moved , but he still showed a tendency to finger about the place where it had been . This experiment shows that it is possible to observe , and profit in future action by the ...
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... force the baby to learn a distinction which to him is new , not supplied by his original equipment . He notes differences which he had previously neglected between a ball and a candle flame , and continues to respond as before to the ...
... force the baby to learn a distinction which to him is new , not supplied by his original equipment . He notes differences which he had previously neglected between a ball and a candle flame , and continues to respond as before to the ...
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... forces which tend to eliminate false beliefs and support true ones . The burnt child dreads the fire — that is , the experience of pain attaches emotional intensity to the response of avoiding close contact with fire , and we have ...
... forces which tend to eliminate false beliefs and support true ones . The burnt child dreads the fire — that is , the experience of pain attaches emotional intensity to the response of avoiding close contact with fire , and we have ...
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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...