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... observation and proceed to construct an hypothesis . He started with a problem beyond the range of any possible observation - the origin of the world . And his image of the primordial nature of things was announced with all the ...
... observation and proceed to construct an hypothesis . He started with a problem beyond the range of any possible observation - the origin of the world . And his image of the primordial nature of things was announced with all the ...
Page 87
... observation or experiment . It starts from a definition , stating , for instance , what the triangle essentially is . It then goes on to deduce from that definition and a few other explicit premisses , a whole string of necessary pro ...
... observation or experiment . It starts from a definition , stating , for instance , what the triangle essentially is . It then goes on to deduce from that definition and a few other explicit premisses , a whole string of necessary pro ...
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... observation and reflection ) , at a new kind of knowledge , which he thought ' could be trusted to make its way by itself with intelligent people , and would be found useful to humanity ' . This statement , no doubt , represents part of ...
... observation and reflection ) , at a new kind of knowledge , which he thought ' could be trusted to make its way by itself with intelligent people , and would be found useful to humanity ' . This statement , no doubt , represents part of ...
Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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