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Delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 27, 1981. This was the first of two Howison Lectures on ‘The Transcendence of Reason’.

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Putnam, H. Why there isn't a ready-made world. Synthese 51, 141–167 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413825

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