peripety
(en)
(noun) a reversal of circumstances, or turning point; Anglicised form of the Greek "peripeteia"
The final stage of the Pragmatist's Progress comes when one begins to see one's previous peripeties not as stages in the ascent toward Enlightenment, but simply as the contingent results of encounters with various books which happened to fall into one's hands.
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