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42 – Saler – As If

Game Studies Study Buddies

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Sherlock Holmes and the Ironic Imagination

There's a lot in here I think this is actually you know this chapter feels the furthest away from the actual arguments of the book to me because it mostly seems to be interested in talking about homes. Holmes who quote expanded the definition of rationality beyond a narrow means in instrumentalism to include the imagination resulting in the more commodious form of animistic reason that imbued its objects with meaning. That's kind of what the whole chapter is about. It's got a lot of great anecdotes into it if you're interested in learning what these like Sherlock Holmes fans were up to, they won't tell you but there was one where they all went to Reichenbach falls and restaged Moriarty

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