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... ages of the world ; though they have here , as seems to me , something of novelty in their connection with the philosophy of science . But this point I willingly leave to the calm de- cision of competent judges . I have added in an ...
... ages of the world ; though they have here , as seems to me , something of novelty in their connection with the philosophy of science . But this point I willingly leave to the calm de- cision of competent judges . I have added in an ...
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... AGES . CHAP . X. THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES . Raymond Lully . CHAP . XI . THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES- continued . Roger Bacon . CHAP . XII . THE REVIVAL OF PLATONISM . I. 2 . Causes of Delay in the Advance of Knowledge ...
... AGES . CHAP . X. THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES . Raymond Lully . CHAP . XI . THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES- continued . Roger Bacon . CHAP . XII . THE REVIVAL OF PLATONISM . I. 2 . Causes of Delay in the Advance of Knowledge ...
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... age . I conceive that in the doc- trines to which these researches have conducted us , we have a far better hope that we possess a body of permanent truths than the earlier essays on the same subjects could furnish . For we have not ...
... age . I conceive that in the doc- trines to which these researches have conducted us , we have a far better hope that we possess a body of permanent truths than the earlier essays on the same subjects could furnish . For we have not ...
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... ages concerning the mode by which man best acquires the truest knowledge ; and I shall endeavour , as we proceed , to appreciate the real value of such judgments , and their place in the progress of sound philosophy . In this estimate ...
... ages concerning the mode by which man best acquires the truest knowledge ; and I shall endeavour , as we proceed , to appreciate the real value of such judgments , and their place in the progress of sound philosophy . In this estimate ...
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... age to age . In doing this , I can only endeavour to seize some of the most prominent features of each time and of each step , and I must pass rapidly from classical antiquity to those which we have called the dark ages , and from them ...
... age to age . In doing this , I can only endeavour to seize some of the most prominent features of each time and of each step , and I must pass rapidly from classical antiquity to those which we have called the dark ages , and from them ...
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