Phenomenological thought for the day

No carriage without a horse. But the horse is not a carriage.
No flying without an engine. But the engine is not a plane.
No mind without a brain. But–

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Author: JD Fleming

I am Professor of English Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. My work is in the intellectual history of the early-modern period (1500-1700), with a special interest in epistemic issues around the emergence of modern natural science (the "Scientific Revolution"). Philosophically, for me, these issues are subsumed in hermeneutics.

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