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- Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will…
- It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be…
- Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
- The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
- The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions…
- In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would…
- This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all…
- Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
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