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Page 90
... reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred the ...
... reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred the ...
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... reality : There's no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn't be shaped like a sausage instead of a boot , but that doesn't happen to be the case . The world is everything that is the case , and what the case is is not a matter of ...
... reality : There's no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn't be shaped like a sausage instead of a boot , but that doesn't happen to be the case . The world is everything that is the case , and what the case is is not a matter of ...
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Bernard Bergonzi. are still inclined to believe in reality as traditionally conceived , and are less readily inclined to sympathise with authors whose premise is that such reality no longer exists , or at least is inaccessible , and that ...
Bernard Bergonzi. are still inclined to believe in reality as traditionally conceived , and are less readily inclined to sympathise with authors whose premise is that such reality no longer exists , or at least is inaccessible , and that ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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