The Story of PhilosophyTrübner & Company, 1881 - 210 pages |
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... opinions of his age and country . His deductive reasoning demanded hypothesis ; and hypo- thesis ( or self - generated idea ) upon hypothesis he doubtless assumed and rejected , until he suddenly came upon one which he seized upon in ...
... opinions of his age and country . His deductive reasoning demanded hypothesis ; and hypo- thesis ( or self - generated idea ) upon hypothesis he doubtless assumed and rejected , until he suddenly came upon one which he seized upon in ...
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... opinion . From the time of Thales we have the record of four great philosophers only , in 212 years . The first of these was his successor , some even say his follower and almost contemporary , Anaximenes . He ap- pears , like Thales ...
... opinion . From the time of Thales we have the record of four great philosophers only , in 212 years . The first of these was his successor , some even say his follower and almost contemporary , Anaximenes . He ap- pears , like Thales ...
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... opinions arise , if not at the same time , shortly afterwards . The law of positive and negative seems to belong to mental life as well as to certain sciences . While Thales , Anaximenes , and Diogenes of Apollonia were pursuing their ...
... opinions arise , if not at the same time , shortly afterwards . The law of positive and negative seems to belong to mental life as well as to certain sciences . While Thales , Anaximenes , and Diogenes of Apollonia were pursuing their ...
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... opinions — and he lived for some time wandering in Sicily , a poor minstrel or rhapsodist , singing or declaiming his own verses . But fragments only of these are recorded , with the exception of a long epic relating the foundation of ...
... opinions — and he lived for some time wandering in Sicily , a poor minstrel or rhapsodist , singing or declaiming his own verses . But fragments only of these are recorded , with the exception of a long epic relating the foundation of ...
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... opinion— perhaps the grandest and noblest Freethinker the world will ever know . The linked lives of the two Eleatics , with one Thought and two opposite methods of expressing it , are hardly to be traced after this appearance at Athens ...
... opinion— perhaps the grandest and noblest Freethinker the world will ever know . The linked lives of the two Eleatics , with one Thought and two opposite methods of expressing it , are hardly to be traced after this appearance at Athens ...
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