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... fact . Fact for the metaphysician , however , is altogether more slippery . Different metaphysicians see the world each in his separate way ; what they take to be the case is coloured by their metaphysical conceptions . There is no ...
... fact . Fact for the metaphysician , however , is altogether more slippery . Different metaphysicians see the world each in his separate way ; what they take to be the case is coloured by their metaphysical conceptions . There is no ...
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... fact , but if this involves him in dismissing as illusory what instructed opinion generally takes to be real , his triumph may be hollow . Whether he likes it or not , he has to frame a theory that will carry conviction with experts in ...
... fact , but if this involves him in dismissing as illusory what instructed opinion generally takes to be real , his triumph may be hollow . Whether he likes it or not , he has to frame a theory that will carry conviction with experts in ...
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... facts . Their objective is to give a reasoned account of what exists or obtains , and for this purpose attention to fact is of course indispensable . It figures in metaphysical thinking at two stages . First , at the beginning , when ...
... facts . Their objective is to give a reasoned account of what exists or obtains , and for this purpose attention to fact is of course indispensable . It figures in metaphysical thinking at two stages . First , at the beginning , when ...
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