#FHBradley

“Analytic philosophy — the dominant tradition in the English-speaking world today — was born as a rebellion against this one reclusive Oxford bachelor, and it has never quite escaped his most famous argument.”

“Ordinary thinking works by relating things to other things — and relations, examined closely, collapse into contradiction. So the everyday world of separate things in space and time is appearance; reality is one single, seamless experience: the Absolute.”