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Editorial

Let’s Be Pragmatic!

by Rick Lewis

Sebastian shaded his face with his copy of Language, Truth and Logic and trailed his fingers idly in the cool water alongside the punt, listening to the murmur of the river and the russell of the reids. Charles was propelling the vessel calmly along a broad stretch of the Cherwell past ancient colleges and green lawns, pausing, as they approached ‘ye olde locke’, to ayer some thoughts.

“So what sort of philosophy are they doing in the colonies these days?”

“What, you mean Bermuda?”

“No, clot – I mean America,” said Charles, looking ryled.

“Heaven knows,” said Sebastian, “I wish Philosophy Now would do an issue on it..

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