Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an exp…

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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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