 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 308 pages
...understand exactly what this basis is, and what difficulties it finally involves. When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct...fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 328 pages
...understand exactly what this basis is, and what difficulties it finally involves. When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct...fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that... | |
 | Edgar Sheffield Brightman - Philosophy - 1927 - 820 pages
...when you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch (and the same is true of its science), you must not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary to defend. "There will," he says, "be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant... | |
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When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the... 
