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ing. At same time, he offers penetrating and sympathetic insights into Lewis's reformulation of philosophy, along with a spirited defence of his subjects work against attacks of contemporaries in logical positivist and Quinean camps. Given this thorough handling of Lewis's intellectual biography, it is all more curious that Murphey does not explicitly justify his claim that Lewis was the last great pragmatist until very end of book. And when he does, there are good reasons many offered by author himself in earlier chapters for disputing Murphey s case and denying Lewis elevation to canon of Great Pragmatists. A principal reason why Lewis merits renewed consideration, according to Murphey, is that he was one of few philosophers trained for issues of nineteenth cen-
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