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W i responded to stephen White’s deep and elegant lecture in rome, i said that i agreed with his transcendental argument and i do. it is a profound contribution to the discussion of the epistemology and phenomenology of perception. and apart from one minor textual issue having to do with William James,1 was so convinced by that lecture that i had no criticism to voice. But on a subsequent close...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Auslegung: a Journal of Philosophy
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0733-4311
DOI: 10.17161/ajp.1808.9100