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... exist in a pure substanceless state , not only in the highest of mathematical abstractions , but more often in the most mundane of common lives . He concludes Trout Fishing in America ( 1967 ) with one such example , a letter of ...
... exist in a pure substanceless state , not only in the highest of mathematical abstractions , but more often in the most mundane of common lives . He concludes Trout Fishing in America ( 1967 ) with one such example , a letter of ...
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... exist . What exists in the space ' woman ' would occupy , if she existed , is a con- catenation of ideas about woman . " To capture the animal , the con- tent , we throw out a hopeless net ; the animal itself escapes , we are left ...
... exist . What exists in the space ' woman ' would occupy , if she existed , is a con- catenation of ideas about woman . " To capture the animal , the con- tent , we throw out a hopeless net ; the animal itself escapes , we are left ...
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... exist . Fiction is artifice but not artificial . It seems as pointless to call the creative powers of the mind " fraudulent " as it would be to call the procreative powers of the body such . What we bring into the world is per se beyond ...
... exist . Fiction is artifice but not artificial . It seems as pointless to call the creative powers of the mind " fraudulent " as it would be to call the procreative powers of the body such . What we bring into the world is per se beyond ...
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