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... Unwritten Ethology 355 16. The Sociobiological Theory of Jewish Intellectual Achievement : A Sociological Critique 385 17. Causality in the Social Sciences 421 Index 437 Introduction A collection of essays is literally a collection of.
... Unwritten Ethology 355 16. The Sociobiological Theory of Jewish Intellectual Achievement : A Sociological Critique 385 17. Causality in the Social Sciences 421 Index 437 Introduction A collection of essays is literally a collection of.
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... theory of gravitation , is of an altogether different character . Even if the axioms of the theory are set by men , the success of such an endeavor presupposes in the objective world a high degree of order that we were a priori in no ...
... theory of gravitation , is of an altogether different character . Even if the axioms of the theory are set by men , the success of such an endeavor presupposes in the objective world a high degree of order that we were a priori in no ...
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... Theory ; thus Einstein stated his general problem as one of deriving the empirical laws of nature from a theory formulated primarily in accordance with aesthetic - math- ematical requirements : ' Which are the simplest formal structures ...
... Theory ; thus Einstein stated his general problem as one of deriving the empirical laws of nature from a theory formulated primarily in accordance with aesthetic - math- ematical requirements : ' Which are the simplest formal structures ...
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... theory of relativity , Einstein wrote in 1953 that ' there is perhaps some truth in Eddington's reasonings . The latter has always appeared to me as a man truly filled with ideas .... '3 Eddington indeed claimed to be able to derive the ...
... theory of relativity , Einstein wrote in 1953 that ' there is perhaps some truth in Eddington's reasonings . The latter has always appeared to me as a man truly filled with ideas .... '3 Eddington indeed claimed to be able to derive the ...
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... theory logically simple enough ? " '18 But is this an adequate trans- lation of Einstein's creed ? It omits precisely the noumenal component , the belief that God's Intelligence expressed itself in the structure of the laws of nature ...
... theory logically simple enough ? " '18 But is this an adequate trans- lation of Einstein's creed ? It omits precisely the noumenal component , the belief that God's Intelligence expressed itself in the structure of the laws of nature ...
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God Guilt and Logic The Psychological Basis of the Ontological Argument | 61 |
Sociological Aspects of the Relation Between Language and Philosophy | 87 |
The Principle of Simplicity | 109 |
The Genetic Fallacy Reexamined | 129 |
The Reasoning of Holocaust Theology | 153 |
Confronting Evil and Its Unreason | 169 |
The Dream of Benedict de Spinoza | 241 |
The Dreams of Descartes | 257 |
Anxiety and Philosophy The Case of Descartes | 273 |
Spinozas Thought and Modern Perplexities Its American Career | 293 |
John Stuart Mill as a Sociologist The Unwritten Ethology | 327 |
The Sociobiological Theory of Jewish Intellectual Achievement A Sociological Critique | 357 |
Causality in the Social Sciences | 393 |
Index | 409 |
The Philosophical Method of Arthur O Lovejoy Critical Realism and Psychoanalytical Realism | 179 |
Lawless Sensations and Categorial Defenses The Unconscious Sources of Kants Philosophy | 199 |
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Varieties of Scientific Experience: Emotive Aims in Scientific Hypotheses Lewis Samuel Feuer Попередній перегляд недоступний - 1995 |
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Сторінка 102 - It was found that the background linguistic system (in other words, the grammar) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas, the program and guide for the individual's mental activity, for his analysis of impressions, for his synthesis of his mental stock in trade.
Сторінка 338 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths.
Сторінка 101 - We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated.
Сторінка 54 - Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible with ethics : it seems the only conception of life which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics" (The Mechanistic Conception of Life, p.
Сторінка 342 - It must always have been seen, more or less distinctly, by political economists, that the increase of wealth is not boundless : that at the end of what they term the progressive state lies the \ stationary state, that all progress in wealth is but a postponement •,'!' this, and that each step in advance is an approach to it.
Сторінка 338 - The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined, are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different in different ages and countries; and might be still more different, if mankind so chose.
Сторінка 206 - This domain is an island, enclosed by nature itself within unalterable limits. It is the land of truth — enchanting name! — surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the native home of illusion, where many a fog bank and many a swiftly melting iceberg give the deceptive appearance of farther shores, deluding the adventurous seafarer ever anew with empty hopes, and engaging him in enterprises which he can never abandon and yet is unable to carry to completion.
Сторінка 61 - I think there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
Сторінка 69 - I, so far as actual knowledge of the object, either from its specific or general character, is concerned, am as little able to conceive of this being when I hear of it, or to have it in my understanding, as I am to conceive of or understand God himself : whom, indeed, for this very reason I can conceive not to exist.
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