Anyone who has extra sympathy with conventional empiricism than with a lot of present-day philosophy might ask himself: 'How do my reports provide upward push to my ideals approximately an exterior international, and to what volume do they justify them?' He desires to refer, between different issues, to unremarkable reports, of a kind which he can't aid believing to be so super universal that it might be ridiculous to name them universal reports. He generally has in brain sense-experiences, and he thinks of them in a selected means. His state of mind of them, approximately conversing as whatever 'inner', is one on which contemporary logico-linguistic philosophy has thrown a great deal of gentle. The correct targeted concept of an event contrasts, between different issues, with a definite extra common biographical concept of an adventure, which a few dictionaries point out by means of the definition, 'an occasion of which one is the subject'. This booklet explores the idea that of stories, concentrating on the disjunctions among conception and phantasm.
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