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... mean something other than the selection of a set of qualities common to the class in question . Abstraction here means , in fact , no more than selective attention . But there is a more important point to notice . We might have expected ...
... mean something other than the selection of a set of qualities common to the class in question . Abstraction here means , in fact , no more than selective attention . But there is a more important point to notice . We might have expected ...
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... mean to say that one idea appears to have certain connexions with other ideas but does not really do so , or that it ... means 1. ' Proofs ' are defined as ' the intervening ideas ' in a demonstration . ( IV.2.3 . ) 2. IV.15.1 . 3. See ...
... mean to say that one idea appears to have certain connexions with other ideas but does not really do so , or that it ... means 1. ' Proofs ' are defined as ' the intervening ideas ' in a demonstration . ( IV.2.3 . ) 2. IV.15.1 . 3. See ...
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... means two , ' at once ' means at once , and so on . And these are contingent facts . Thus our certainty of logical and mathematical state- ments depends on our certainty as to the relevant contingent statements . We can therefore never ...
... means two , ' at once ' means at once , and so on . And these are contingent facts . Thus our certainty of logical and mathematical state- ments depends on our certainty as to the relevant contingent statements . We can therefore never ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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