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Roman Ingarden and the Realism/Idealism Debate
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This part of the section Ontologists of 19th and 20th centuries includes the following pages:
Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Ontological Reism to Semantical Concretism (Current page)
Selected bibliography on Kotarbinski's Reism and Semantical Concretism
Polish ontologists:
Kazimierz Twardowski on the Content and Object of Presentations
Stanislaw Leśniewski's Logical Systems: Protothetic, Ontology, Mereology
Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Ontological Reism to Semantical Concretism
Roman Ingarden and the Realism/Idealism Debate
Roman Suszko and the Non-Fregean Logics
Bogusław Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations
Jerzy Perzanowski: Modal Logics, Ontology and Ontologics
Ontology and Metaphysics
"Ingarden held that philosophy divides into ontology and metaphysics. Ontology is an autonomous discipline in which we discover and establish
the necessary connections between pure ideal qualities by intuitive analysis of the contents of ideas. This is an indispensable preparation for metaphysics,
which aims to elucidate the necessary truths of factual existence. Each section of philosophy - theory of knowledge, philosophy of man, philosophy of nature
and so on - has ontological and metaphysical aspects.
Ingarden argues that every being is a triple unity of matter (contents), form (of the matter) and existence (in a certain mode). Accordingly,
ontology as a whole is divided into material, formal and existential ontology. Existence is neither a property nor one of the material or formal moments of an
object; it is always the existence of something and what exists determines by its essence a mode of being which belongs to it. Modes of being are constituted
from existential 'moments', of which Ingarden distinguishes the following opposite pairs: originality-derivativity, autonomy-heteronomy,
distinctiveness-connectiveness and independence-dependence. Taking into account the modes of being thus constituted, there are four basic spheres of being:
absolute (supratemporal), ideal (timeless), real (temporal - it has the most numerous forms) and purely intentional (atemporal, sometimes seemingly in time).
Ingarden also draws a distinction between three domains: pure ideal qualities, ideas and individual objects. Each individual object is formally a subject of
properties whose identity is determined by its constitutive nature. Individual objects of higher order, such as organisms, may be superstructured on autonomous
individual objects. Ideas and purely intentional beings have a two-sided formal constitution - besides their own structure they also have contents (in the case
of ideas it is constituted by constants and variables, and in the case of purely intentional beings by places of indeterminateness).
Analyses of being in time, of the stream of consciousness and of the world show that their existence is derivative and depends on their
relation to original (absolute) being. The foundation of being is placed either in its essence (and ultimately in the content of some idea) or is purely
factual in its character. In his analysis of the controversy over the existence of the world, Ingarden first formulates Husserl's transcendental starting
point, and then demonstrates and states precisely its assumptions concerning the two elements of initial relation: the real world and the stream of
consciousness, together with a subject which belongs to it (pure ego). These considerations lead Ingarden to reject both Husserl's solution and his way of
setting the question.
What is real appears in three temporal phases: the future, the present and the past. Objects determined in time include objects enduring in
time, processes and events. A human being is an object enduring in time and constituted by a soul, which comprises an ego together with a stream of
consciousness, and a body (with a subsystem constituting 'the gate of consciousness'). Living on the border of two spheres, the real (nature, animality), and
the ideal (values), human beings create a third sphere of culture. Thus their need to transcend this fragility by a process of self-formation that is
subordinated to values makes them prone to tragedy."From: Ingarden, Roman Witold (1893-1970) - by Antoni B. Stepien - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy p.
790.
"Ontology, in Ingarden's sense, analyses the necessary structures of possible objects: it seeks to establish alternative possible structures
of the world, where metaphysics would establish which of these alternatives is in fact realized. Ingarden distinguishes further between existential ontology.
which investigates the modes of existence of different kinds of objects; formal ontology, which investigates the forms of objects (as contrasted with their
material or qualitative aspects); and material ontology, which deals with these qualitative aspects themselves. The Controversy is divided up accordingly:
Volume 1 deals with existential ontology, Volumes 2 and 3 with formal ontology.
The Controversy contains extensive analyses of the modes of existence especially of temporal objects (events, processes. states). of the
forms of individual objects, of ideas, states of affairs, relations, regions of being, worlds, and consciousness. Volume 3 contains an analysis of the causal
nexus (cause and effect are regarded as simultaneous), of relatively isolated systems and of the problem of determinism.
The metaphysical (and concomitant epistemological) parts of the work were not written, but Ingarden's analyses of temporal existence (cf.
1983) and his stress on the reality of free human actions realizing values, seem to imply the possibility of a metaphysical investigation of man, and the final
considerations of Volume 3 may be held to imply a certain priority of at least some metaphysical investigations to material ontology. Ingarden's last work
(English translation 1983) is devoted to the ontological foundations of responsibility.
Ingarden is principally known, however, not for his investigations in general ontology and metaphysics but for his writings in aesthetics,
and especially for his classic work on the ontology of literature (1931, English translation 1973). Even this, however, was undertaken in order to establish a
radical difference of structure as between 'intentional objects' -- objects created by and dependent on acts of consciousness - and objects in reality.
Epistemology, for Ingarden, is divided into 'pure' epistemology - which investigates the ideas or essences of cognitive acts as revealed in
"immanent eidetic intuition" and establishes ultimate principles of cognition - and 'applied' epistemology, which is partly empirical, and applies these
principles to actual cases. In his epistemology, therefore, Ingarden initially embraces Husserl's notion of pure consciousness as the area where structures of
mental acts may be indubitably cognized. Ingarden, however, rejects the necessity of any sort of transcendental reduction in philosophy and his analyses lead
to a conception of consciousness not as something independent but as a merely abstract stratum in the real self. Ingarden thereby denies all the ontological
features - irreality, self-sufficiency, and separateness - that had been ascribed to consciousness by Husserl. And he thereby undermines, in fact, the very
notion of a 'pure' consciousness in the Husserlian mould." (pp. 396-397)
From: Andrzej Poliawski, "Ingarden, Roman" in: Hans Burkhardt & Barry Smith (eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology,
Munich: Philosophia Verlag 1991.
"For Ingarden, as for the other earlier phenomenologists, the decisive characteristic of phenomenology consisted in its program of an
intuitive study of essences; as a matter of fact he devoted his habilitation thesis, Essentiale Fragen, to a careful analysis of the questions
concerning the essence of a thing. To the resulting theory of 'aprioric' necessary truths he gave the name 'ontology.' Husserl himself had been talking in a
similar vein of the different regional ontologies (i.e., of the apriori theories of different domains or regions of objects) and of a general formal ontology
(i.e., of the apriori theory of the formal structure of any object whatsoever). But Ingarden admitted that he used the term 'ontology' in a somewhat wider
sense, because for him ontology included the study of the essence of pure consciousness (die Wesensanalyse des reinen Bewusstseins). Husserl had once
defined phenomenology as the study of the essence of pure consciousness, but he had never thought to call this investigation 'ontological.' For him
phenomenology could not be a proper part of ontology, since on the contrary he conceived of ontology, the study of the objects of consciousness, as a proper
part of phenomenology, the study of consciousness.
There was thus more than merely a terminological disagreement between them. What was at issue was the question whether ontology or
phenomenology, namely the transcendental phenomenology of the process of constitution, had to come first. Ingarden was of the opinion that an analysis and
evaluation of the constitutive processes involved in our knowledge of things presupposed as a 'guiding thread' the prior possession of a clarified notion of
those things, while Husserl maintained that a clarified notion of the things could only be obtained on the basis of a prior understanding of the process of
constitution .This difference between Ingarden and Husserl is, in fact, the one which separates the realistic from an idealistic approach to this problem.
However, Ingarden did not reject the program of a transcendental phenomenology as such. Already in his account of 1919 he had devoted a
special section to the presentation of the phenomenological reduction and the immanent self-knowledge of pure consciousness, and, unlike most other members of
the Göttingen and Munich groups, Ingarden had always accepted the transcendental reduction as meaningful and even necessary, namely necessary for the
development of epistemology. To understand Ingarden's position one most know that in his Ph.D. dissertation, in his efforts to criticize the relativist and
subjectivist claims made by Bergson, and in his struggle to clarify the issues involved in the idealism-realism controversy, he had been led to make a sharp
distinction between epistemological and metaphysical assertions, which, together with his conception of ontology, resulted in a three-fold division of all
systematic philosophy. The tasks of the three divisions are as follows: ontology investigates the necessary troths, i.e., delimits the bounds of sense, namely
the range of the apriori possible (it covers what in Analytic Philosophy is the realm of conceptual analysis); metaphysics makes existence claims, i.e., it
tries to decide what is the nature of that which in fact is the case;'* finally epistemology, which for Ingarden emphatically is not first philosophy, has the
task of certifying the validity of the results already obtained by scientific and philosophical investigations. Ingarden's conception of transcendental
phenomenology can now be understood. For him the raison d'être of the transcendental reduction is epistemological, it has its rightful place in the
program of a non-circular certification of all knowledge. And once the reduction is performed, then a new realm for ontological analysis is opened up (cf. the
above mentioned study of the essence of pure consciousness). Furthermore, there are the facts of transcendental consciousness and other facts which might be
inferred from them, all of which are part of the domain of metaphysics. Thus transcendental phenomenology is for Ingarden a mixture of epistemological,
ontological and metaphysical questions." (pp. 1224-1226)
From: Guido Küng, "Roman Ingarden (1893-1970): Ontological Phenomenology", in: Herbert Spiegelberg, The Phenomenological Movement. A
Historical Introduction, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1963 (Third edition).
"The ontological analyses of works of art affected Ingarden's entire ontology. Its best elaboration is contained in Spór o istnienie
swiata (The controversy over the existence of the world, 1947-48). A being, i.e., an object, can be considered in three different respects: (1)
the material one, (2) the formal one, and (3) the existential one (modes of being). Ingarden understands ontology as based on eidetic insight and intuitive
analyses of the contents of ideas, i.e., upon the eidetic method, which enables one to discover the necessary and purely possible relations between the pure
ideal qualities. Ontology is for him the most general theory of objects. He distinguishes it from metaphysics, which fulfills the role of an applied theory of
objects and which, being based on ontology, considers the nature and essence of factual beings. The eidetic character distinguishes metaphysics from the
so-called real sciences.
Ontology aims at obtaining a general spectrum of eidetic possibilities and necessities with reference to any objects whatever. In the frame
of an existential ontology, which has nothing to do with Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology, Ingarden distinguishes and clearly defines four mutually
exclusive pairs of moments of being: something can be (1) existentially autonomous or heteronomous, (2) existentially original or derivative, (3) existentially
separate or not separate, and (4) existentially self-dependent or contingent. Considerations connected with the analysis of the second pair has led Ingarden to
an original interpretation of the relation of causality. His analysis of time has brought some additional pairs of existential moments, such as actuality and
non-actuality; persistence and fragility; and fissuration and non-fissuration. These differentiations enables him to distinguish and describe four basic modes
of being (consisting of noncontradictory combinations of existential moments). These are: (I) absolute being (autonomous, original, separate,
self-dependent); (2) temporal (real) being; (3) ideal (extratemporal) being; and (4) purely intentional (quasitemporal) being. We cannot experience any
existing object without its mode of being.
In epistemology Ingarden distinguishes: (1) the pure theory of knowledge, which is actually a part of ontology, because he describes it as an
a priori analysis of the general idea "knowledge"; (2) criteriology, which researches such epistemic values as objectivity and adequacy; and (3) the critique
of knowledge, which evaluates factually obtained results of scientific and philosophical cognition." (p. 349)
From: Andrzej Przylebski, "Roman Ingarden" in: Lester Embree et alii (eds.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Dordrecht: Kluwer
1997.
Ontology as a science of pure possibilities
"Ingarden begins with a purely formal ontological analysis, and builds towards an analysis of human being, and the possibility of human
meaning. By examining existence in its various modes, he comes to consider the matter and form most readily accessible to cognition: ourselves. Plotting the
multiple axes of our existence leads him to an understanding of the nature of our essence. So far, so good, Ingarden appears to be undertaking a classical
phenomenological inquiry. But there are several surprises in store for the unsuspecting reader, particularly regarding a few key terms from both phenomenology
and existentialism to which Ingarden gives entirely new meaning.
For example, each of his central concerns, essence and existence, turn out to be just the opposite of what we might expect. So too with his
fields of inquiry; Tymieniecka's dissertation, Essence and Existence could just as easily have been entitled Ontology and Metaphysics, for
from the outset, Ingarden begins to play with seemingly familiar terms. In his view, ontology is neither﹃a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and
relations of being﹄nor "a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of existents." Rather, for Ingarden, ontology precedes metaphysics, and
metaphysics is (and must be) grounded in ontology. Ingarden declares that ontology proposes to answer the question: "What is the essence of this thing which
exists?"
According to Ingarden, three fundamental groups of questions form the basis for the distinction between ontology and metaphysics,
corresponding to three distinct types of knowledge, and three distinct modes of inquiry:
l) Scientific knowledge focuses on facts contained within the limits of the real world, including the existence of the world as such, and all
the objects found within it. This is the purview of the "particular sciences": chemistry, physics, and so on. Such sciences do not study the essences of
things, but rather only the quality and quantity of the constituent elements of their factual existence.
2) Ontology entertains questions regarding what is "purely possible": ideas. Ontological questions establish the linkages between things, the
constitutive structural network underlying the possibility of the existence of the world (for example, "if p, then necessarily q..."). In themselves,
ontological questions do not study essences as such, but rather inquire into the conditions that must obtain in order for essences to result, as well as the
links between essences.
3) Metaphysical questions, by contrast, study the essences of things. It is here that Ingarden reveals his existentialist side. Metaphysics
explores the essential characteristics of things in their "pure incomprehensible facticity." Metaphysics also studies the effects of things on one another.
Simply put, both the particular sciences and ontology are empty outlines of existence, which are, respectively, entirely composed of content or form.
Metaphysics, on the other hand, is the vibrant canvas stretched on the frame of ontology and painted all over with data waiting to be interpreted. Metaphysics,
Ingarden asserts, is dependent on ontology to supply a conceptual framework, but surpasses ontology in claiming to know the essences of things, beyond their
constitutive physical elements, in knowing what constitutes the unique individual existence of any object." (pp. 185-186 notes omitted)
From: Nancy Mardas, "Essence and Existence in Phenomenological Ontology: Roman Ingarden", in: A. T. Tymieniecka (ed.), The Passions
of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming, Dordrecht: Kluwer 2003, pp. 183-198.
"While it is difficult to find any radical turning points in the philosophy of Roman Ingarden, an inner tension can be detected. Ontology as
a science of pure possibilities is set against metaphysics as a science of the essence of actually existing being. The philosopher did not build his
metaphysics, he stopped at outlining its conception, as he believed that metaphysical considerations should be preceded by ontological investigations. Ingarden
carried out ontological investigations on various levels: the meta- philosophical level (conception of ontology), systematic existential and formal-ontological
investigations; the epistemological level (ontology of cognition); the aesthetic level (the ontology of the work of art and aesthetic object); the axiological
level (the ontology of value); the level of the philosophy of language (meanings of words as inter- subjective intentional creations). The ontological
perspective pervades almost all Ingarden's philosophical thinking, inclining his interpreters to ask the following question: is there a chance of leaving this
magic circle of pure possibilities? Let us take into consideration whether the philosopher closed to himself the path leading to actually existing being. Why
did Ingarden insist on the necessity of ontological investigations even though they were moving the metaphysical horizon away from him? For metaphysics was,
aging the aim and ontology just an introduction to it. What is more, Ingarden's temperament and nature made him a metaphysician (he was interested in being)
rather than a phenomenologist (he did not want to confine himself to how being was given to him). On the level of ontological considerations we observe the
tension between intuition and discourse (direct and indirect cognition).
The Controversy about the Existence of the World is a systematic presentation of Ingarden's ontology. His earlier works constituted
an introduction to it: Essentiale Fragen (1925), which offered the differentiation between an idea (eidos) and essence (Wesen) and
an outline of the theory of ideas; Bemerkungen zum Problem Idealismus-Realismus (1929), in which Ingarden distinguished three groups of philosophical
issues (ontological, metaphysical and epistemological) and distinguished the modes of existence and existential moments as fundamental notions of existential
ontology. The philosopher discussed more specific ontological questions in his other works: -- Das literarische Kunstwerk (1931, the ontology of a
purely intentional object); -- Vom formalen Aufbau des individuaellen Gegenstandes (1935, the formal ontology of an autonomous individual object).
Ontology approached as a science on the possible ways of existence occupies a distinguished position in Ingarden's studies. It does not
comprise existential assertions (it does not assert what actually exists). Ingarden distinguishes the following domains of existence: a domain of individual
objects, a domain of ideas, a domain of ideal qualities. He refers the notion of essence to individual objects (autonomous and non-autonomous). In various
individual objects we observe the identity of certain moments which determine their range. This selection of identical moments, to which correspond many
individual exemplifications, Ingarden calls an idea. We think about the existence of an idea only because in the world, which is experienced by us, we come
across necessary connections between qualities. What is necessary speaks for the rationality of being and this rationality can be explained through the
relations between ideal qualities in the content of ideas. Purely factual dependencies (for example, causal dependencies) or phenomenal dependencies are not
enough to acknowledge the rationality of being. Therefore Ingarden presents the following argumentation: starting from the data of experience he asks a
question on the conditions of the possibility of what is given in experience. He does not mean subjective conditions (what cognitive powers a subject should be
equipped with in order to experience in the way he experiences) but objective, ontic conditions (what has being to be like in order to appear in such a way and
not another way in experience). Thus experience suggests assuming a certain theoretical hypothesis--a hypothesis on the existence of an idea.
Ideas are characterized by their dual formal structure:--as ideas they have a characteristic structure which differentiates them from
individual objects as well as ideal qualities; --they are ideas of something, i.e., they differ from each other by their content, determining the range of
individual objects "subjected to them". This dual structure makes it possible to differentiate between the cognitive competence of ontology and metaphysics.
Ontology investigates the content of ideas only (that they are ideas of something) and necessary connections between ideal qualities. It is only metaphysics
that can formulate statements on the actual existence of ideas.
In the sphere of facts nothing can exist that would be contradictory to pure possibilities. Thus ontological investigations should constitute
the beginning of all philosophical considerations. Theoretically they precede individual sciences and they are more general. Ontology eliminates problems and
conclusions that are inconsistent with an idea of the investigated objects. Ideal qualities occur in the content of an idea in the shape of constants and
variables--existential, formal and material. An ontologist employs an a priori analysis of the content idea (a prioric laws of connection and exclusion), but
he does not lose the connection with experience broadly approached. The a priori cognition of ideal qualities is understood by Ingarden intuitively and this
enables ontology to establish a wide range of studies." (pp. 186-187, notes omitted).
From: Zofia Majewska, "The Philosophy of Roman Ingarden", in: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.) Phenomenology World-Wide. Foundations -
Expanding Dynamics - Life-Engagements. A Guide for Research and Study, Dordrecht: Kluwer 2002 pp. 184-199.
The controversy with Husserl
"Husserl was convinced that rigorous philosophy i.e., phenomenology must begin with a thoroughly elaborated epistemology and eventually
develop from that starting point an ontology and metaphysics. Ingarden was equally convinced that any ontology or metaphysics that originated from an idealist
epistemology was itself bound and determined to be idealist. His criticisms of Husserl's position bear witness to the legitimacy of that conviction: To attempt
to 'defend' Husserl against the charge that his idealism is 'committed to' metaphysical idealism is vain, if for no other reason than that Husserl appears to
have felt justified in making metaphysical assertions that he apparently considered to be sufficiently well grounded in his idealist epistemology (although he
never explicated this foundational relationship). In the light of Ingarden's criticisms, it seems equally wrongheaded to suggest, as does Farber, that Husserl
was committing some kind of transgression against the program of phenomenology as he initially conceived and described it. It appears, rather, that the
'subjectivism' Farber sees winning the day in Husserl's 'system of thought' is not at all the result of any fundamental change in the direction of his thinking
but is instead the inevitable conclusion of a development of thought proceeding from his starting point of epistemological idealism. As we have seen, Ingarden
found the position of metaphysical idealism impossible to maintain-indeed he appears to have been dissatisfied with idealism per se. Ingarden was convinced it
was the very starting point of Husserl's phenomenology in epistemology that directed him toward the ontological solution of metaphysical idealism, and by
restricting his own initial approach to the problems regarding the existence of the world to exclusively ontological investigations he hoped to avoid a similar
predetermination of the metaphysical position he would later proceed to establish. Ingarden systematically elaborated these ontological investigations in his
magnum opus, Controversy Over the Existence of the World." (p. 65)
From: Jeff Mitscherling, Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press 1997.
The debate Realism vs. Idealism
"...the idealism/realism controversy was a central philosophical topic in the early decades of this century. With the subsequent reshaping of
phenomenology along existentialist lines, primarily as a result of the work of Heidegger and Sartre, and with the increasing popularity of the 'analytic'
concern with problems of logic, epistemology, and language, the interest in the ontological dimension of the idealism/realism controversy had greatly subsided
before Ingarden finally published the first volumes of Controversy. Throughout his life, however, Ingarden remained committed to working out the ontological
problems he had addressed so early in his career, sincerely believing that the idealism/realism debate concerning the existence of the world was of primary
philosophical importance. The detailed analyses he presents in Controversy support his belief, and they do so in two respects. First, while his innumerable
treatments of major historical figures, from Plato to Husserl, are generally offered for the purpose of either dispelling already existing confusion or
clarifying his own use of terms-for example, he devotes the first section of the opening chapter of volume I simply to a detailed description of the manner and
sense in which the term "idealism" has been variously employed over the centuries-these treatments at the same time indicate the central position the
idealism/realism controversy has occupied throughout the history of Western philosophy, and thereby argue for the necessity of understanding this controversy
and appreciating its centrality. But secondly, and more importantly, the excruciating rigour and thoroughness that he brings to his analyses render them
compelling: the reader is indeed forced to grant Ingarden his claim that the problems he is dealing with do indeed warrant further investigation, and that our
philosophical integrity demands of us that we pursue them further." (p. 80)
From: Jeff Mitscherling, Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press 1997.
Excerpts frm his publications (in progress)
Time and Modes of Being
From the Author's Preface:
"In 1946/47 my two volume work, The controversy over the existence of the World (Spór o istnienie Å?wiata Vol. I, 297 pages, Vol II 848
pages) was published under the inprint of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
The present volume contains the English translation of parts selected from volume I of this work: the Introduction, Chapter III (with its
introduction), Chapter VI, and section 31 from Chapter VII.
This selection covers my most important ontological analyses of modes of being and of time, as it is involved with these, which lead to the
establishment of fundamental concepts of modes of existence. These investigations constitute the existential-ontological preparation for Volume II, which
contains formal-ontological studies clarifying a number of basic formal concepts that are indispensable to an adumbration of prospective possible solutions of
the controversy between idealism and realism. Volume II is in preparation.(...) I wish to express my great and sincere appreciation to Mrs. Michejda for her
careful preparation of this excellent translation, which completely satisfies every demand of the author."
CONTENTS: Author's Preface V; Translator's Preface VII;
Chapter I. Preliminary considerations 3;
Introduction 3; The foundation and the tentative formulation of the question at issue 8; Different groups of problems requiring delimitation
17;
Chapter II. Introduction 22;
Three main groups of ontological problems 22;
Chapter III. Basic existential concepts 28;
The problem of the possibility of analyzing existence 28; Modes of Being and moments of existence 32; Autonomy and heteronomy 43; Existential
originality and existential derivation 52; Existential separateness and inseparateness 82; Existential self-dependence and existential contingency 89; Absolute
Being - Relative Being 92;
Chapter IV. Time and modes of Being 99;
Preliminary observations regarding concrete time 99; The mode of Being of events 102; The mode of Being of processes 107; The mode of Being
of objects enduring in time 124;
Chapter V. The consequences for the possible solutions of the controversy over the existence of the world when time is taken into account
157; New concepts of modes of Being 157;
Name Index 165; Subject Index 167.
External links
Thomasson Amie, "Roman Ingarden", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward
N. Zalta (ed.)
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