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noumenal

we have a noumenal and trascendental side, a side which escapes relationality

—p.68 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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the appearance-reality distinction

We antiessentialists [...] cannot afford to sneer at any human project, any chosen form of human life. In particular, we should not allow ourselves to say what I have just said: that by taking this view of physical science we seem to see ourselves as more than human. For an antiessentialist canno…

—p.60 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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invidious

to put the point less invidiously

—p.60 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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hypostatisation

the distinction between things related and relations is just an alternative way of making the distinction between what we are talking about and what we say about it. The latter distinction is, as Whitehead said, just a hypostatization of the relation between linguistic subject and linguistic predicate

—p.56 A World without Substances or Essences (47) by Richard M. Rorty
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