Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1928 - 590 pages |
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... PRACTICAL PROBLEMS ix 3 21 SIL- 83 100 114 130 136 143 150 154 164 180 196 226 239 248 Part III : SCIENTIFIC METHOD AS THE OBJECTIVE REALIZATION OF THE CONDITIONS OF RIGHT THINKING IX . THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC VERIFICATION 255 X ...
... PRACTICAL PROBLEMS ix 3 21 SIL- 83 100 114 130 136 143 150 154 164 180 196 226 239 248 Part III : SCIENTIFIC METHOD AS THE OBJECTIVE REALIZATION OF THE CONDITIONS OF RIGHT THINKING IX . THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC VERIFICATION 255 X ...
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... practical pressure which determines other types of conscious experience fails to hold us . tion of In the second place , there was æsthetic appreciation . This form Esthetic of conscious experience is sufficiently identified in the ...
... practical pressure which determines other types of conscious experience fails to hold us . tion of In the second place , there was æsthetic appreciation . This form Esthetic of conscious experience is sufficiently identified in the ...
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... practical rather than theoretical ) . Thus when we were engaged in rescuing the boy from his barrel , the happy solution of our problem depended on our having correct beliefs , first as to the advisability of waiting to land the ...
... practical rather than theoretical ) . Thus when we were engaged in rescuing the boy from his barrel , the happy solution of our problem depended on our having correct beliefs , first as to the advisability of waiting to land the ...
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... practical pressure is absent , with beliefs that turn out in time to have been quite false and undependable . But is this a matter of such great moment ? Do not most of these mistaken ideas in- volve not the slightest difficult ...
... practical pressure is absent , with beliefs that turn out in time to have been quite false and undependable . But is this a matter of such great moment ? Do not most of these mistaken ideas in- volve not the slightest difficult ...
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... 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.
... 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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