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... fact ready to ac- cept it - Materialism can be true at most in a modified form . This modified form of Materialism is perhaps better de- scribed as naturalism . Naturalism holds not that all things consist of matter or its modifications ...
... fact ready to ac- cept it - Materialism can be true at most in a modified form . This modified form of Materialism is perhaps better de- scribed as naturalism . Naturalism holds not that all things consist of matter or its modifications ...
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... fact that there is an apparent choice between competing metaphysical systems , which may dif- fer in plausibility but agree in being each internally self- consistent , rules this possibility out . The alternative is to argue that ...
... fact that there is an apparent choice between competing metaphysical systems , which may dif- fer in plausibility but agree in being each internally self- consistent , rules this possibility out . The alternative is to argue that ...
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... fact . This is not to say , however , that the metaphysi- cian builds on experience as does his scientific colleague . To think that is to take altogether too simple a view of the whole question . Tests of validity . A question of ...
... fact . This is not to say , however , that the metaphysi- cian builds on experience as does his scientific colleague . To think that is to take altogether too simple a view of the whole question . Tests of validity . A question of ...
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