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Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

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Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World
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The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — all those things like gravity and light and the fossil of the Archaeopteryx that exist whether or not we believe in them — is pocked with myriad subjective realities, each lensed through the particular qualia of the perceiver, each a function not of the mind alone but of the entire organism and the whol

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