Representative Essays in Modern Thought: A Basis for CompositionHarrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine American Book Company, 1913 - 533 Seiten |
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... hypotheses which serve for the more accurate asking of questions . To sum up : We may believe what goes beyond our experience , only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we ...
... hypotheses which serve for the more accurate asking of questions . To sum up : We may believe what goes beyond our experience , only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we ...
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... hypothesis to anything that may be proposed to our belief ; and just as the electricians speak of live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility ...
... hypothesis to anything that may be proposed to our belief ; and just as the electricians speak of live and dead wires , let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead . A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility ...
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... hypothesis are not intrinsic proper- ties , but relations to the individual thinker . They are meas- ured by his willingness to act . The maximum of liveness in an hypothesis means willingness to act irrevocably . Practically , that ...
... hypothesis are not intrinsic proper- ties , but relations to the individual thinker . They are meas- ured by his willingness to act . The maximum of liveness in an hypothesis means willingness to act irrevocably . Practically , that ...
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... hypothesis live enough to spend a year in its verification : he believes in it to that ex- tent . But if his experiments prove inconclusive either way , he is quit for his loss of time , no vital harm being done . It will facilitate our ...
... hypothesis live enough to spend a year in its verification : he believes in it to that ex- tent . But if his experiments prove inconclusive either way , he is quit for his loss of time , no vital harm being done . It will facilitate our ...
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... hypothesis he offers us is dead . No tendency to act on it exists in us to any degree . The talk of believing by our volition seems , then , from one point of view , simply silly . From another point of view it is worse than silly ; it ...
... hypothesis he offers us is dead . No tendency to act on it exists in us to any degree . The talk of believing by our volition seems , then , from one point of view , simply silly . From another point of view it is worse than silly ; it ...
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