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Which book did Bernard Williams use to discuss the âabsolute conceptionâ of reality?
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Bernard Williams
English philosopher of ethics and historian of philosophy Bernard Williams.
Bernard Williams discussed the âabsolute conceptionâ of reality in his book Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (1978).1
In this work, he described the ideal of scientific objectivity as a way of understanding the world âanyway,â independent of any specific human perspective or representation.1