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stalking words across the world! a book I wish I could have been awesome enough to write, & so one I'll have to content myself with just reading.
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"Can the notions of truth and truthfulness be intellectually stabilized, in such a way that what we understand about truth and our chances of arriving at it can be made to fit with our need for truthfulness? I believe this to be a basic problem for present-day philosophy."
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An important series of debates on nations and nationalism was held at Warwick University on 24 October 1995. They brought together two of the best known authorities (teacher and student!) to address what was perhaps the defining debate of 1990s scholarship on nationalism: the question of whether the nation is a wholly modern phenomenon, or something based in more ancient social affiliations. Here is Anthony Smith's opening address, and the complete transcript of Ernest Gellner's reply.
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