The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other EssaysB.W. Huebsch, 1919 - 509 стор. |
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... expedient for the agent . This is naïve pragmatism of the developed kind . There is no longer a question but that the responding organism is an agent " and that his intelligent response to stimulus is of a teleological character . But ...
... expedient for the agent . This is naïve pragmatism of the developed kind . There is no longer a question but that the responding organism is an agent " and that his intelligent response to stimulus is of a teleological character . But ...
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... expedient line of conduct , nor even necessarily in a chain of motor activity , but in terms of the sequence of activities going on in the observed phe- nomena . The " interpretation " of the facts under the guidance of this idle ...
... expedient line of conduct , nor even necessarily in a chain of motor activity , but in terms of the sequence of activities going on in the observed phe- nomena . The " interpretation " of the facts under the guidance of this idle ...
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... expediency , the test of truth applied throughout this body of barbarian knowl- edge is the test of dramatic consistency . In addition to their dramatic cosmology and folk legends , it is needless to say , these peoples have also a ...
... expediency , the test of truth applied throughout this body of barbarian knowl- edge is the test of dramatic consistency . In addition to their dramatic cosmology and folk legends , it is needless to say , these peoples have also a ...
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... expedient end for the knower , and is here contrasted with the imputation of expedient conduct to the facts observed . The reason for pre- serving this distinction is simply the present need of a simple term by which to mark the ...
... expedient end for the knower , and is here contrasted with the imputation of expedient conduct to the facts observed . The reason for pre- serving this distinction is simply the present need of a simple term by which to mark the ...
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... expedient conduct as carried on under the current relations of mastery and subservience . The 7 Cf. , e . g . , Tylor , Primitive Culture , chap . 8 . habitual distinctions are distinctions of personal force , advantage , ΙΟ The Place ...
... expedient conduct as carried on under the current relations of mastery and subservience . The 7 Cf. , e . g . , Tylor , Primitive Culture , chap . 8 . habitual distinctions are distinctions of personal force , advantage , ΙΟ The Place ...
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Сторінка 114 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Сторінка 114 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Сторінка 132 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Сторінка 203 - The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring," and the later refinements on the theory of value have not set aside this dictum of the ancient authority.
Сторінка 117 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
Сторінка 128 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Сторінка 115 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Сторінка 120 - It cannot then be correct to say with Adam Smith, "that as labour may sometimes purchase a greater and sometimes a smaller quantity of goods, it is their value which varies, not that of the labour which purchases them...
Сторінка 133 - The produce of the earth — all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community: namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
Сторінка 75 - The economic life history of the individual is a cumulative process of adaptation of means to ends that cumulatively change as the process goes on, both the agent and his environment being at any point the outcome of the last process.