Weeping Philosopher

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    The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
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    Certainly the philosopher of ‘possible worlds’ must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.
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