Science and Literature: A ReaderJohn J. Cadden, Patrick R. Brostowin |
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... metaphysical " truth . " For them the important consideration was not how things behave , or what their history might be , but how they were linked with Total Being , and what , in a word , was their metaphysical status . This was ...
... metaphysical " truth . " For them the important consideration was not how things behave , or what their history might be , but how they were linked with Total Being , and what , in a word , was their metaphysical status . This was ...
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... metaphysics , positing matter and mind as originating in a central Idea and then undergoing dispersion throughout space and time , argued that the material universe was not fixed or rooted in " common sense . " Quite the contrary : in ...
... metaphysics , positing matter and mind as originating in a central Idea and then undergoing dispersion throughout space and time , argued that the material universe was not fixed or rooted in " common sense . " Quite the contrary : in ...
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... metaphysical universe apart . This bifurcation of man's original insight into two ways of thought , the one empirical and the other imaginative , while it brought a remarkable sharpening of the factual and discursive , nonetheless ...
... metaphysical universe apart . This bifurcation of man's original insight into two ways of thought , the one empirical and the other imaginative , while it brought a remarkable sharpening of the factual and discursive , nonetheless ...
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SCIENCE AND CULTURE thomas henry huxley | 3 |
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE mathew arnold | 15 |
SCIENCE POETRY AND POLITICS eric larrabee | 24 |
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