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own personal thinking obtains dramatic expression
The problems are impartially discussed from opposed standpoints; the difficulties peculiar to each of the competing possible solutions are frankly recognised, and indeed insisted upon; and the internal dialectic of Kant’s own personal thinking obtains dramatic expression.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

or profane true or delusional experiences
However sacred or profane, true or delusional, experiences may be to the philosopher, the theologian, or the man of practical affairs, to him who is psychologizing they all alike
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

or perhaps the only despot ever
He was the first, or perhaps the only despot ever assassinated by his own wife.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

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