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Product Description: Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still allowing mutual intelligibility. Such powers cannot be simulated by any possible physical mechanism, and this shows that human beings in our acts of judgment and understanding transcend the body...read more
Hardcover:
9780813221748, titled "Language & Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought" | Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, February 19, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures.
Product Description: This study discusses the mind-body problem, arguing that the human person is best understood as an animal who is also spirit. Braine suggests that human beings should be described holistically, in the tradition of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas...read more
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9780268010980 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A philosophical work that addresses the validity of the question: What is it for the human being to be an animal, and for this animal to be a spirit?
Paperback:
9780268011062 | Reissue edition (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, December 1, 1994), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: This study discusses the mind-body problem, arguing that the human person is best understood as an animal who is also spirit.
Hardcover:
9780566052491 | Gower Pub Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $52.95
Product Description: Basing his argument for the existence of God on the continuous nature of the temporal world, Braine here posits that the philosophy of religion cannot be continued as a separate discipline: the solution of its problems will be the fruit of the correct telesis of the problems of general philosophy in their complex interrelationships...read more
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9780198244592 | Clarendon Pr, April 14, 1988, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Basing his argument for the existence of God on the continuous nature of the temporal world, Braine here posits that the philosophy of religion cannot be continued as a separate discipline: the solution of its problems will be the fruit of the correct telesis of the problems of general philosophy in their complex interrelationships.
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