Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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... reason- ing process or deduction were correct , the results would be equally true or verifiable in experience . In the Principia Mathematica Newton explored the logical or mathemati- cal consequences of certain laws of force , notably ...
... reason- ing process or deduction were correct , the results would be equally true or verifiable in experience . In the Principia Mathematica Newton explored the logical or mathemati- cal consequences of certain laws of force , notably ...
Page 62
... reason , and in this case reason , said Franklin , tells us that free Negroes are not by nature " deficient in natural un- derstanding , " but simply that Negroes " have not the ad- vantage of education . " Here we may see more than an ...
... reason , and in this case reason , said Franklin , tells us that free Negroes are not by nature " deficient in natural un- derstanding , " but simply that Negroes " have not the ad- vantage of education . " Here we may see more than an ...
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... reason . Reason produces concepts out of experience and these concepts are always abstract , like the mutually repelling invisible particles in the electric fluid which he supposed was transferred from one body to another in ...
... reason . Reason produces concepts out of experience and these concepts are always abstract , like the mutually repelling invisible particles in the electric fluid which he supposed was transferred from one body to another in ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY | 164 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
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