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The rationality of the belief does not depend upon the belief itself being a means towards the end of predicting truth , but consists in the fact that the inductive policy covering it is , frequently ...
The rationality of the belief does not depend upon the belief itself being a means towards the end of predicting truth , but consists in the fact that the inductive policy covering it is , frequently ...
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Thus I find it difficult to conceive of any end to which scientific knowledge is not an essential means . And I cannot easily think of many ends which do not require social co - operation for their attainment .
Thus I find it difficult to conceive of any end to which scientific knowledge is not an essential means . And I cannot easily think of many ends which do not require social co - operation for their attainment .
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Whatever be the reason for Chaucer's disclaimers - and it should be remarked that they usually occur in works which are by no means devoid of poetic art in the sense in which I am thinking of it — they suggest a consciousness on his ...
Whatever be the reason for Chaucer's disclaimers - and it should be remarked that they usually occur in works which are by no means devoid of poetic art in the sense in which I am thinking of it — they suggest a consciousness on his ...
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Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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