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On Coming Home to (Metaphysical)Realism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
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5 ‘Sense, Nonsense and the Senses’, 447 & 465.
6 ‘Sense, Nonsense and the Senses’, 461; this being a gloss of the view presented in the preface to Realism with a Human Face.
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