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Note 29 — Chapter VI · PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

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It is curious how many of these would-be precise terms have since reversed their meanings. For the adjective derived from subject see p. 159; virtual, which was once allied with potential as the opposite of actual, is now practically a synonym for the latter term; and the Greek word from which instance is taken was originally an objection to an argument, not an example of it.

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