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In the same way , to the ordinary man nothing seems more certainly objective than space . Yet Kant declared that space was only a pure form of our intuition — a form contributed by our minds . A philosophy of life is analogous to ...
In the same way , to the ordinary man nothing seems more certainly objective than space . Yet Kant declared that space was only a pure form of our intuition — a form contributed by our minds . A philosophy of life is analogous to ...
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a obvious that the ancients must have conceived the properties of Time and Space as we do , or at least as we did , before we heard of the theory of relativity . For our purpose we may neglect that theory because it has not really ...
a obvious that the ancients must have conceived the properties of Time and Space as we do , or at least as we did , before we heard of the theory of relativity . For our purpose we may neglect that theory because it has not really ...
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With the assumption that Space is finite and spherical goes the belief that the earth which man inhabits stands at the centre of the universe , as Plato and Aristotle maintained . Aristarchus of Samos could not even succeed in giving ...
With the assumption that Space is finite and spherical goes the belief that the earth which man inhabits stands at the centre of the universe , as Plato and Aristotle maintained . Aristarchus of Samos could not even succeed in giving ...
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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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