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Their conception of nature is not one which could have arisen from scientific observation , nor yet ( since it has parallels not only in Indian philosophy but in primitive thinking wherever this has been laid bare by anthropologists ) ...
Their conception of nature is not one which could have arisen from scientific observation , nor yet ( since it has parallels not only in Indian philosophy but in primitive thinking wherever this has been laid bare by anthropologists ) ...
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They follow the same pattern , which pattern could never have been designed by inference from the observation of nature . Now the value of the parallel I have drawn with Hebrew cosmogony lies in the fact that the Old Testament has ...
They follow the same pattern , which pattern could never have been designed by inference from the observation of nature . Now the value of the parallel I have drawn with Hebrew cosmogony lies in the fact that the Old Testament has ...
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What sort of observation could have taught Anaximander that the earth is a cylindrical drum , three times as broad as it is high ; or that the fixed stars , the moon , and the sun , in that order , are respectively distant from the ...
What sort of observation could have taught Anaximander that the earth is a cylindrical drum , three times as broad as it is high ; or that the fixed stars , the moon , and the sun , in that order , are respectively distant from the ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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