On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:32:17 -0500, "tooly" 
wrote:

>Thanks to Spotlight for this mouthful of information.
>
>Idealism seems to be passe in today's world though.

Isn't postmodernism the new idealism - in the sense that their view of
language is one which brackets off reality (the Kantian noumena) and
leaves us in a realm of "intertextuality."

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TF