Phenomenology of Mind
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. B. Baillie · first published 1967
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…speculation, would be only negative, not to enlarge the bounds of, but to purify, our reason, and to shield it against error—which alone is no little gain. Hegel built on this directly with his famous book The Phenomenology of Mind, of which I highly recommend the short preface titled On Scientific Cognition. I don't think there could be a more clear piece of evidence that these were the leading thinkers of their time on matters…
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