Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...experience. His feelings, his "Appreciate comments" on the world are not to reveal to him truth; only his "Descriptions" are to be objective. All that he assumes of the outer world is that it is describable. As such, however, it turns out to be a world of a "well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space...