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The most flattering ( which I naturally prefer ) is that , if you direct attention to those factors in an author's work which are in any sense unconscious , you strike the specialist as detracting from those merits which the author may ...
The most flattering ( which I naturally prefer ) is that , if you direct attention to those factors in an author's work which are in any sense unconscious , you strike the specialist as detracting from those merits which the author may ...
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Some of them the grammarian calls ' metaphors ' ; but a traditional metaphor is often not really the ' transference ' of a word to a new sense . It may well be a fossilised association , holding together elements of thought that have ...
Some of them the grammarian calls ' metaphors ' ; but a traditional metaphor is often not really the ' transference ' of a word to a new sense . It may well be a fossilised association , holding together elements of thought that have ...
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Reality is immaterial , accessible to thought , but not to the senses . ... materialist interpretation of history , itself a reaction against the idealist interpretation of Hegel , is bound up with materialism in the philosophic sense .
Reality is immaterial , accessible to thought , but not to the senses . ... materialist interpretation of history , itself a reaction against the idealist interpretation of Hegel , is bound up with materialism in the philosophic sense .
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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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