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But I disagree with him by denying that experience itself, as distinct from its essential structure and unity, can be generalized so as to yield "experience simply as such" as a "cosmic variable" that is neither hopelessly vague nor inconsistent, but at once clear and consistent. Either "experience simply as such" turns out to be used – -- fallaciously and self-contradictorily – -- as merely a "local variable" after all, or else it is used-again, self-contradictorily – -- as merely a symbolic, or metaphorical, way of expressing the strictly literal concept/term, "concreteness simply as such."

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