"Philosophy can take us no further than enabling us to command a clear view of the concepts by means of which we think about the world, and, by so doing, to attain a firmer grasp of the way we represent the world in our thought. It is for this reason and in this sense that philosophy is about the world."
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Dummett, M. A. E. The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1991.
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Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA D.Litt (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was a British philosopher in the analytic tradition, known most notably as an interpreter of Frege.
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