"To think about reality we must use concepts, and certain truths about concepts may reveal, or reflect, truths about reality."
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Derek Parfit, âExperiences, Subjects, and Conceptual Schemesâ, Philosophical Topics, vol. 26, no. 1/2 (Spring/Fall, 1999), pp. 223-224
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Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit (11 December 1942 â 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them.
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