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Learning from a Novel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

R. W. Beardsmore
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There is always a danger in philosophy, that what is intended initially as simply one explanation of some form of activity, should come to be regarded as the only possible form of explanation. Nor does this danger seem to be diminished where a philosopher's aim is itself that of attacking limited notions of what is possible as an explanation. This is one, though not the only, reason why it is often the case that what at first appears as a revolutionary and illuminating solution of certain philosophical difficulties, later gives rise to even more intractable problems of its own.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 6: Philosophy and The Arts , March 1972 , pp. 23 - 46
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1972

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