The Story of PhilosophyTrübner & Company, 1881 - 210 pages |
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... method . " This process of reasoning was naturally crude and im- perfect in the time of Thales . All know that the deductive method at its highest means arguing and proving from a given Cause or Principle to its various effects or conse ...
... method . " This process of reasoning was naturally crude and im- perfect in the time of Thales . All know that the deductive method at its highest means arguing and proving from a given Cause or Principle to its various effects or conse ...
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... method , but rejecting his hypo- thesis of the First Cause being Moisture , advanced his own , that it was Air . The soul within him , that moved and controlled his body , seemed to him more like air than water . To seek beyond the ...
... method , but rejecting his hypo- thesis of the First Cause being Moisture , advanced his own , that it was Air . The soul within him , that moved and controlled his body , seemed to him more like air than water . To seek beyond the ...
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... the Mediterranean - the Eleatic Philosophy was born and bred . Xenophanes , who is considered the founder of the method , was a native of Colophon , a city of Asia Minor ; B and , though the exact dates of his birth and THE ELEATICS . 17.
... the Mediterranean - the Eleatic Philosophy was born and bred . Xenophanes , who is considered the founder of the method , was a native of Colophon , a city of Asia Minor ; B and , though the exact dates of his birth and THE ELEATICS . 17.
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... method by which he attempted to prove it .. Ridiculing Pythagoras ' doctrine of Metempsychosis , Xenophanes passionately refuted the system of deities pro- mulgated by Homer and Hesiod - whose works he attacked in various poems of ...
... method by which he attempted to prove it .. Ridiculing Pythagoras ' doctrine of Metempsychosis , Xenophanes passionately refuted the system of deities pro- mulgated by Homer and Hesiod - whose works he attacked in various poems of ...
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... methods . With Xenophanes he was sceptical as to the possibility of proving what appeared to be the Truth . He doubted the senses , and felt that his Reason must travel with them to a certain extent . Still he felt within him ...
... methods . With Xenophanes he was sceptical as to the possibility of proving what appeared to be the Truth . He doubted the senses , and felt that his Reason must travel with them to a certain extent . Still he felt within him ...
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