Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western HistoryMortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. |
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... known . Other points made by some of the authors quoted are not concurred in or mentioned by others , such as the ... known ; about the existential status of the object known ; about the grades of human knowledge , either in terms of the ...
... known . Other points made by some of the authors quoted are not concurred in or mentioned by others , such as the ... known ; about the existential status of the object known ; about the grades of human knowledge , either in terms of the ...
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... known insofar as its likeness is in the one who knows . Now this takes place in two ways . For since things which are like one and the same thing are like each other , the knowing power can be assimilated to any knowable object in two ...
... known insofar as its likeness is in the one who knows . Now this takes place in two ways . For since things which are like one and the same thing are like each other , the knowing power can be assimilated to any knowable object in two ...
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... known - we cannot know , e.g. that the diagonal of a square is commensurate with its side . The premisses must be primary and indemonstrable ; otherwise they will require demonstration in order to be known , since to have knowledge , if ...
... known - we cannot know , e.g. that the diagonal of a square is commensurate with its side . The premisses must be primary and indemonstrable ; otherwise they will require demonstration in order to be known , since to have knowledge , if ...
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