title: Beyond the Limits of Thought
author:  Graham Priest 
description: `Review from previous edition This book is a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher...'<br />Alan Weir, Philosophical Quarterly<br /><br />`clever, resourceful, undogmatic, unpretentious, often sensible and usually clear over a wide range of issues'<br />Timothy Williamson, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science<br /><br />`highly entertaining and provocative... an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude...'<br />A. W. Moore, Times Literary Supplement<br /><br />`Graham Priest combines a deep philosophical appreciation of fundamental logical issues with a marvelously informed reading of both the history of philosophy and contemporary texts. His work is ambitious and insightful... The book is an ambitious attempt to do important philosophical work<br />across major borders - borders of the formal and philosophical, the historical and the contemporary, the Analytical and the Continental traditions. In [this] regard it is a resounding success.'<br />Patrick Grim, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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  # The Growth of Thought
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Withington
  
  
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  * [Preface.](growt_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [Part I. Introductory.](growt_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [Part II. Welfare as Dependent on Policy.](growt_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [Part III. Welfare as Dependent on Philosophy.](growt_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [Part IV. Welfare as Dependent on Religion.](growt_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE GROWTH OF THOUGHT AS AFFECTING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY.
  
  
  By William Withington.
  
  
  1851.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A contemporary thus reveals the state of mind, through which he has
  
  
  come to the persuasion of great insight into the realities, which stand
  
  
  behind the veil: “What more natural, more spontaneous, more imperative,
  
  
  than that the conditions of his future being should press themselves on
  
  
  his anxious thought! Should we