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The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought

Note 52 — THE POSTULATE OF IMMEDIATE EMPIRICISM44

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Perhaps the point would be clearer if expressed in this way: Except as subsequent estimates of worth are introduced, “real” means only existent. The eulogistic connotation that makes the term Reality equivalent to true or genuine being has great pragmatic significance, but its confusion with reality as existence is the point aimed at in the above paragraph.

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