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Battin, Margaret P. | On being blue, a philosophical inquiry by William Gass | On Being Blue is a remarkable piece of rumination: it toes, wades, pulls its skirt up and immerses itself in the word 'blue.' Blue noses, blue laws, blue devils, blueblood; Gass begins by producing wonder, and we say: / didn't know the word 'blue' could be used in so many different ways. Bluebird, b... | | 1977 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some questions in R. G. Collingwood's theory of historical understanding | In this essay I would like to examine some problems that are suggested to me by R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy; of historical understanding. My method of examination will be as follows: (1) to show that Collingwood's struggle to maintain his thesis that "history is the re-thinking of past thoughts"... | History; Philosophy;; Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943 | 1977 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | What might speakers '"Tacitly know"? | The theory of innate ideas, as revived by certain developments in transformational grammar, has been the subject of extensive discussion. In this paper I shall argue that there are no grounds at present for the claim, advanced by rationalist linguists, that one must posit certain highly specific it... | Rationalist; Linguistics; Knowledge | 1977 |