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In Philosophy in a new key Susanne Langer (1942, p. 1) stresses the point that the questions posed by any interlocutor constrain and circumscribe the range of acceptable or palatable answers. Those who pose certain questions characteristically take for granted many assumptions that are open to dispute, or presuppose the truth of claims that may be false or problematic. Before I directly confront the substance of the paper by Vonèche, I would like to commend him for his refusal to be suborned by the question-begging queries and assertions posed to him by the Editors of this volume.
Since first person singular pronouns are used throughout the paper on which I shall comment, I will metonymically refer in my commentary only to Vonèche, intending, in such reference, both authors.
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Kaplan, B. (1994). Paradigm, Paraphrase, Paralogia, and Paralysis: All in the name of progress. In: van Geert, P., Mos, L.P., Baker, W.J. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9194-5_10
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