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Page viii
... mentioned . I mean that groundwork of current conceptions shared by all the men of any given culture and never mentioned because it is taken for granted as obvious . He supports it by a quotation from A. N. Whitehead : ' When you are ...
... mentioned . I mean that groundwork of current conceptions shared by all the men of any given culture and never mentioned because it is taken for granted as obvious . He supports it by a quotation from A. N. Whitehead : ' When you are ...
Page xviii
... mentioned that his standpoint was that of a Fabian socialist . ) Yet in the interests of truth he felt bound to protest when the haughty and oracular Heracleitus , who condemned inquiry and claimed to have found wisdom by looking into ...
... mentioned that his standpoint was that of a Fabian socialist . ) Yet in the interests of truth he felt bound to protest when the haughty and oracular Heracleitus , who condemned inquiry and claimed to have found wisdom by looking into ...
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... mentioned simply because they seem too obvious to be worth mentioning . This brings us to the consideration of the current language in which the philosophies of any given age must be expressed . Philosophy requires an ex- ceptionally ...
... mentioned simply because they seem too obvious to be worth mentioning . This brings us to the consideration of the current language in which the philosophies of any given age must be expressed . Philosophy requires an ex- ceptionally ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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