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... laws and the methods of physics , biology , etc. This concept of natural law means much to the scientist ; he canalizes upon natural law and scientific method . As a scientist he would give up almost anything rather than renounce this ...
... laws and the methods of physics , biology , etc. This concept of natural law means much to the scientist ; he canalizes upon natural law and scientific method . As a scientist he would give up almost anything rather than renounce this ...
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... laws of time and space , which are only special cases of more general time - space laws which he attempts to apprehend . As apprehender , he has tried with desperate intensity to tran- scend his humanness . Remembering what Kant said ...
... laws of time and space , which are only special cases of more general time - space laws which he attempts to apprehend . As apprehender , he has tried with desperate intensity to tran- scend his humanness . Remembering what Kant said ...
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... laws of physics , or the laws of biology , or the laws of sociology , but simply laws relating to the intrinsic organization of the real . Herbert Spencer was the prophet of such a view and attempted in his First Principles to lay down ...
... laws of physics , or the laws of biology , or the laws of sociology , but simply laws relating to the intrinsic organization of the real . Herbert Spencer was the prophet of such a view and attempted in his First Principles to lay down ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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