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... elements of human thought in which I have been engaged , and by a consideration of the history of the most clear and certain parts of our knowledge , I have been led to doctrines respecting the progress of that exact and systematic ...
... elements of human thought in which I have been engaged , and by a consideration of the history of the most clear and certain parts of our knowledge , I have been led to doctrines respecting the progress of that exact and systematic ...
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... elements of our knowledge , they have frequently run into the opposite error of too much despising and neglecting facts , and of thinking that the business of the inquirer after truth was only a profound and con- stant contemplation of ...
... elements of our knowledge , they have frequently run into the opposite error of too much despising and neglecting facts , and of thinking that the business of the inquirer after truth was only a profound and con- stant contemplation of ...
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... elements , Earth , Air , Fire and Water , have , for the forms of their particles respectively , the Cube , the Icosahedron , the Pyramid , and the Octahedron ; and again , when it led him to despise the practical controversies of the ...
... elements , Earth , Air , Fire and Water , have , for the forms of their particles respectively , the Cube , the Icosahedron , the Pyramid , and the Octahedron ; and again , when it led him to despise the practical controversies of the ...
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... elements of a philoso- phical education ; the other in the Timæus , as the portions of a theological view of the universe - such as has been called a Theodicca , a justification of God . In the former passage of Plato , the sciences ...
... elements of a philoso- phical education ; the other in the Timæus , as the portions of a theological view of the universe - such as has been called a Theodicca , a justification of God . In the former passage of Plato , the sciences ...
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... elements of reasoning . But it has so happened that these words are rarely used in Sciences of Reasoning , but are abundantly and commonly used in the Sciences of Classification , as I have explained in ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON ARISTOTLE . 25.
... elements of reasoning . But it has so happened that these words are rarely used in Sciences of Reasoning , but are abundantly and commonly used in the Sciences of Classification , as I have explained in ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON ARISTOTLE . 25.
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