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Play Is the Metaphysics of Becoming

May 14, 2019June 1, 2020 Finn Janning 0 Comments Epistemology, Metaphysics, Play

Play is a matter of life and death, and it differs from games in a fundamental way—but it is also a metaphysical activity.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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