William Wordsworth: Nature, Imagination, Ultimate Reality and Meaning
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From Law and Chance in nature to Ultimate reality
this chapter argues that there is some traction between an ontology of nature1 based on the reality of law and chance in nature, on the one hand, and a metaphysics of ultimacy,2 on the other. Contrary to the strategy of traditional natural theology, which aims at direct entailment from aspects of an ontology of nature to theories of ultimacy, the traction i speak of has only the limited effect ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ultimate Reality and Meaning
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0709-549X
DOI: 10.3138/uram.13.3.177