Infinity: An Essay in MetaphysicsClarendon Press, 1964 - 289 pagina's |
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Pagina 107
... principle unverifiable . Granting even that one has succeeded in examining every crow , how could one ever know that every last crow has in fact been canvassed ? Unwilling to write the thesis off as meaningless , the empiricists enlarge ...
... principle unverifiable . Granting even that one has succeeded in examining every crow , how could one ever know that every last crow has in fact been canvassed ? Unwilling to write the thesis off as meaningless , the empiricists enlarge ...
Pagina 126
... principle that lies beyond the principle of causality . The principle of causality requires merely that anything that comes into being must have a cause of existence . Seeing that the infinite chain of causation cannot itself be said to ...
... principle that lies beyond the principle of causality . The principle of causality requires merely that anything that comes into being must have a cause of existence . Seeing that the infinite chain of causation cannot itself be said to ...
Pagina 127
... principle of sufficient reason true ? Can it be known to be true ? Much admired in the past , the principle in our own day has been proscribed as positively meaningless . It has been ruled out on the ground that it is neither ...
... principle of sufficient reason true ? Can it be known to be true ? Much admired in the past , the principle in our own day has been proscribed as positively meaningless . It has been ruled out on the ground that it is neither ...
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INFINITY | 1 |
HYPERMATHEMATICS | 72 |
COSMOLOGY I | 102 |
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