For Phillips, what gives philosophy its unique disciplinary feature is its primary concern with the question of the nature of reality : " How can philosophy give an account of reality which shows that it is necessary to go beyond simply noting differences between various modes of discourse, without invoking a common measure of'the real'or assuming that all modes of discourse have a common subject, namely, Reality ?"
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For Phillips, what gives philosophy its unique disciplinary feature is its primary concern with the question of the nature of reality : " How can philosophy give an account of reality which shows that it is necessary to go beyond simply noting differences between various modes of discourse, without invoking a common measure of'the real'or assuming that all modes of discourse have a common subject, namely, Reality ?"