The Study of PhilosophyCollegiate Press, 1987 - 340 pages |
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... knowledge . He thought it was not possible to acquire virtue , to act rightly , without knowledge . This was why clear thinking about right conduct and the need to achieve exact definitions were of such importance to him . This was a ...
... knowledge . He thought it was not possible to acquire virtue , to act rightly , without knowledge . This was why clear thinking about right conduct and the need to achieve exact definitions were of such importance to him . This was a ...
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... knowledge of them is not possible . And this would seem to follow from our basic premise , for if knowledge is restricted to things we can experience , then if God were knowable , he would have to be a thing of a physical sort , bound ...
... knowledge of them is not possible . And this would seem to follow from our basic premise , for if knowledge is restricted to things we can experience , then if God were knowable , he would have to be a thing of a physical sort , bound ...
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... knowledge prior to experience , and with experience all our knowledge begins . To think that we can have knowledge without experience ( as the rationalists contended ) would be the same - making use of a remarkable and memorable analogy ...
... knowledge prior to experience , and with experience all our knowledge begins . To think that we can have knowledge without experience ( as the rationalists contended ) would be the same - making use of a remarkable and memorable analogy ...
Contents
It began here | 11 |
And so I go about the world | 29 |
Aristotle and the art of thinking | 67 |
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