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As the philosophers might say, 'literature' and 'weed' are functional rather than ontological terms: they tell us about what we do, not about the fixed being of things.

admire its laconic plainness or low-keyed sobriety

Many of my fellow philosophers use the term 'postmodernist relativism' as if it were a pleonasm

people whose convictions are archaic and ingenerate

The idea that we have a moral duty to correspond to reality is, for Nietzsche andJames, as stultifYing as the idea that the whole duty of man is to please God.