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... opinions are nothing but efforts to formulate the real contents of experience . This view I accept . So then , as I insist , whatever your opinions , your expression of them is an appeal to some wider insight that you regard as real ...
... opinions are nothing but efforts to formulate the real contents of experience . This view I accept . So then , as I insist , whatever your opinions , your expression of them is an appeal to some wider insight that you regard as real ...
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... opinions , including any opinion that we may have that doubts or questions or denies its reality , are all equally meaningless . Thus even when we appeal to common - sense we really appeal to a genuine but super - human insight . Let us ...
... opinions , including any opinion that we may have that doubts or questions or denies its reality , are all equally meaningless . Thus even when we appeal to common - sense we really appeal to a genuine but super - human insight . Let us ...
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... opinions about the world cannot even be false . For opinion , in all its fleeting blindness and in its human chaos of caprices , is ceaselessly an appeal to the judge , to the seer , to the standard experience , to the knower of facts ...
... opinions about the world cannot even be false . For opinion , in all its fleeting blindness and in its human chaos of caprices , is ceaselessly an appeal to the judge , to the seer , to the standard experience , to the knower of facts ...
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RELIGION Introduction | 1 |
Mayflower Compact 1620 | 12 |
Swine and Goats | 13 |
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