On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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... called foolish . No system can be true , and no reasoning can be valid , which inevitably ends in absurdity . Such scepticism , then , cannot be the mark of an exception- ally intellectual mind , but of an exceptionally foolish one . It ...
... called foolish . No system can be true , and no reasoning can be valid , which inevitably ends in absurdity . Such scepticism , then , cannot be the mark of an exception- ally intellectual mind , but of an exceptionally foolish one . It ...
Pagina 8
... called " reflex mental acts , " and the judgments which the so reflecting mind makes about its own judg- ments are " reflex judgments . " Such difficulty as may be experienced in making these reflections must , however , be got over by ...
... called " reflex mental acts , " and the judgments which the so reflecting mind makes about its own judg- ments are " reflex judgments . " Such difficulty as may be experienced in making these reflections must , however , be got over by ...
Pagina 9
... called in to prove . Evidently we cannot prove everything . How- ever long may be our arguments , we must at last come to ultimate statements which must be taken for granted , as we must take for granted the validity of the process of ...
... called in to prove . Evidently we cannot prove everything . How- ever long may be our arguments , we must at last come to ultimate statements which must be taken for granted , as we must take for granted the validity of the process of ...
Pagina 39
... called " the law of contradiction , " principle , and may be thus expressed : " A thing cannot , at one and contradic the same time , both be and not be . " If we reflect upon this truth we shall see that it is an absolute and necessary ...
... called " the law of contradiction , " principle , and may be thus expressed : " A thing cannot , at one and contradic the same time , both be and not be . " If we reflect upon this truth we shall see that it is an absolute and necessary ...
Pagina 44
... called forth by a reference to such very remote conditions in connection with a law expressed with the most absolute and universal certainty . But it has been shown , in the first chapter , that we are to be guided in our judgments ...
... called forth by a reference to such very remote conditions in connection with a law expressed with the most absolute and universal certainty . But it has been shown , in the first chapter , that we are to be guided in our judgments ...
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