Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson (Book Summary) | Sloww
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Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson (Book Summary) | Sloww
If I hadn’t written it, I would have forgotten about it. We’re always inclined to forget what we’ve said or done in the past, partly in order not to have the tremendous obligation to remain faithful to it. Otherwise, it seems to me, we would all discover that we’re full of mistakes and, above all, contradictions, between what we intended to do and
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