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... sense organs become linked with muscle groups that bring about , in the responding individual , appropri- ate behavior in the situation that the sense organs report . A sense organ must be truth - yielding , contact - making , " verid ...
... sense organs become linked with muscle groups that bring about , in the responding individual , appropri- ate behavior in the situation that the sense organs report . A sense organ must be truth - yielding , contact - making , " verid ...
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... sense that the rejected goals can lose their lure completely . Most of these problems are problems of alternative ways of satisfying basic wants and are subject to all the difficulties men- tioned above , including the fact that one ...
... sense that the rejected goals can lose their lure completely . Most of these problems are problems of alternative ways of satisfying basic wants and are subject to all the difficulties men- tioned above , including the fact that one ...
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... Sense organs may not mediate the ultimate reality -whatever that may be — but they do mediate the first reality with which adjustment is made . Paraphrasing what Marx said to the idealists , " We do not know what reality is , but we can ...
... Sense organs may not mediate the ultimate reality -whatever that may be — but they do mediate the first reality with which adjustment is made . Paraphrasing what Marx said to the idealists , " We do not know what reality is , but we can ...
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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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