On Truth: A Systematic InquiryKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 - 580 pagini |
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Pagina 3
... doubt is unreasonable . There must be ultimate truths which do not need proof . The ground on which we believe them is their self - evidence , and no better criterion is possible . The pursuit of truth and of truths - Need of certainty ...
... doubt is unreasonable . There must be ultimate truths which do not need proof . The ground on which we believe them is their self - evidence , and no better criterion is possible . The pursuit of truth and of truths - Need of certainty ...
Pagina 5
... Doubt and scepticism , which are not only legitimate but necessary in science , are indeed doubly so in the inquiry concern- ing truth itself . Therein we should assent to nothing which is not clearly and evidently true to our minds ...
... Doubt and scepticism , which are not only legitimate but necessary in science , are indeed doubly so in the inquiry concern- ing truth itself . Therein we should assent to nothing which is not clearly and evidently true to our minds ...
Pagina 7
... doubt or deny the plainest truths , the evidence of their senses , the reality of truth or virtue , or even their own existence . It is well , then , distinctly to recognize that universal doubt is scepticism run mad , as the following ...
... doubt or deny the plainest truths , the evidence of their senses , the reality of truth or virtue , or even their own existence . It is well , then , distinctly to recognize that universal doubt is scepticism run mad , as the following ...
Pagina 16
... doubt about it . " To doubt one's existence , " they will say , " is even more absurd than to believe that one's limbs are made of glass ! " And yet there are two arguments good reasons why no one who would earnestly inquire Possibility ...
... doubt about it . " To doubt one's existence , " they will say , " is even more absurd than to believe that one's limbs are made of glass ! " And yet there are two arguments good reasons why no one who would earnestly inquire Possibility ...
Pagina 29
... doubt as to whether they had or had not some particular past experience , and with others who feel confi- dent they were witnesses of something which they were never near witnessing - as George the Fourth is said to . have made himself ...
... doubt as to whether they had or had not some particular past experience , and with others who feel confi- dent they were witnesses of something which they were never near witnessing - as George the Fourth is said to . have made himself ...
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