Both dogmatism and metaphysics ... are attempts to project one's own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience. (Alexander Nehamas)

Both dogmatism and metaphysics ... are attempts to project one's own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

Alexander Nehamas

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