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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

Isaiah Berlin

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The 'Pyranous Attack'

The whole thing is apso hotch potch or people object subjective opinions. Thet is simply a form of titillating one's imagination and in no sense adding to the truth or adding to one's sense of reality. That is the pyranous attack, which, in a milder way, people like montaigne and his followers to some extent, past in all tantics that takes the view that it's very difficult to discover. But the truth really is, their opinions varythatthe things to believe on this side of the pyrenees are hated on the other side of the Pyrenees. As i say, if anyone wishes to indulge in reading, as

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