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Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs
By Alfred Sidgwick, an “unjustly neglected thinker.” (Jacques Barzun)
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False Simplicity
New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. “Hard-and-fast distinctions are the bane of psychology, as every student of that difficult subject knows; but in popular talk about the mind and its operations or its ‘faculties’ very little trace of such…Read the post →
In So Great a Hurry
New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. In Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs, Sidgwick is concerned with establishing…
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New at IWP Books: F. H. Hayward, 1917, Professionalism and Originality. “The Press, as an organ of criticism, can boycott, if it choose, any subjects…
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