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I was glad to learn that the mind of man ( himself the product of natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed ...
I was glad to learn that the mind of man ( himself the product of natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these laws were the same as those that governed ...
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Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to ...
Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to ...
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Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind ; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy , by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes ...
Hume long ago showed that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind ; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy , by bringing to view certain events to which apparently no causes ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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