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Editorial

What’s the Story?

by Rick Lewis

Welcome to our magazine, which this time has a theme of Philosophy and Literature. Firstly, I suppose I had better eat some humble pie. When I was even younger and more foolish than I am now, coming from a physics background my inclination was always to think that in order to investigate the nature of our universe you need to get your hands dirty and do some experimental science. Later, I could see that science has some limits when it comes to understanding life and values, and that even when doing science it is sometimes necessary to straighten out conceptual confusions; to find clearer ways to reason; to avoid ambiguities – all of which requires close attention to how language works. In other words, I could see the crucial importance of philosophy.

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