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By Professor Preston King,Preston King

Professor King's proposal of the philosophy of heritage leads him to provide this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the proposal that the earlier may have not anything to educate us - no matter if posed via those that argue that background is "unique" or that it's basically "contextual".

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