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Spring 1982 • Vol. IV No. 2 • Nonfiction |

Coherence and Possibility: The Logic of the Innermost Universe

By David Finkelstein

Everything is possible.

—Lev Shestov

 

I am but mad north-north-west: 
when the wind is southerly, I know 
a hawk from a handsaw 
—William Shakespeare  Hamlet

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Experiment escorts us last, His pungent company Will not allow an axiom An opportunity.                                EMILY DICKINSON This is an introduction to a work in progress. Already have an account? Log […]

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