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When do Empirical Methods By-pass ‘The Problems Which Trouble Us’?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
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His discussion of aesthetics was mingled in a curious way with criticism of assumptions which he said were made by Frazer in The Golden Bough and also with criticisms of Freud (G. E. Moore, ‘Wittgenstein's Lectures, 1930–33)’.
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- Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 16: Philosophy and Literature , September 1983 , pp. 155 - 172
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- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1983
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