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title: 'Reality: What Place it Should Hold in Foundation: A Paper Read Before the International Congress of Education of the World’s Columbian Exposition'
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authors:
- 'James McCosh'
date: 1895-01-01
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topics:
- 'Philosophy (General)'
- 'Natural Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mccosh-1895-reality-what-place-it-should-hold-in-foundation-a-paper-read-before-the-international-congress-of-education-of-the-worlds-columbian-exposition
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# Reality: What Place it Should Hold in Foundation: A Paper Read Before the International Congress of Education of the World’s Columbian Exposition

McCosh defends philosophical realism: realities are known by immediate intuition and the senses, critiques Kantian idealism, and links realism to religion.

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