Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct. (Umberto Eco)

Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct.

Umberto Eco

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