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Biden’s Philosophy of “As If” How transformational is Bidenomics? We have become virtual reality avatars: the revolution, perhaps, has begun

Biden’s Philosophy of “As If” How transformational is Bidenomics? We have become virtual reality avatars: the revolution, perhaps, has begun

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German philosopher Hans Vaihinger created the term “as if” to refer to a system of thought where ideas are not taken as true in themselves but merely experienced as true. His point is that it does not really matter if they are true, provided one regards them as true. Today we would call this virtual reality.

It is a powerful way of thinking and almost in…

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