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... reality " are they all manifestations ? Is this underlying reality itself further reducible ? The notion that the observed multiplicity and variety of the everyday world are reducible to something common and uniform and not given as ...
... reality " are they all manifestations ? Is this underlying reality itself further reducible ? The notion that the observed multiplicity and variety of the everyday world are reducible to something common and uniform and not given as ...
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... reality in the ordinary sense . Its purpose is the preservation and enrichment of life . It serves as an intermediary between living beings . It is an edifice , well calculated to fulfill such purposes . But to regard it as a copy of ...
... reality in the ordinary sense . Its purpose is the preservation and enrichment of life . It serves as an intermediary between living beings . It is an edifice , well calculated to fulfill such purposes . But to regard it as a copy of ...
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... reality itself . It deals with reality only to the extent of detecting the inevitable sequence and coexistences . But the concepts , the ideas , which encompass and embrace reality are of a fictional nature , the additions of man ...
... reality itself . It deals with reality only to the extent of detecting the inevitable sequence and coexistences . But the concepts , the ideas , which encompass and embrace reality are of a fictional nature , the additions of man ...
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