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The concept of rule is shrouded in confusion and controversy. Yet rules are relied upon and used in a very wide range of fields: language, law, ethics, games and logic, to mention but a few. The use of rules involves an equally wide range of difficulties not the least of which is related to the...

PREFACE I HAVE tried to write a book that he who runs may read. I have, therefore, tried to avoid the use of words that might send the general reader running to his dictionary, only to find that they are not there because they are not Enghsh, but the esoteric jargon of the psychologist. I hope...

INTRODUCTIONIt should be easy to define revisionism. It began with Eduárd Bernstein's independent attempt to re-examine somé of the originál Marxian tenets, and the term should be used for subsequent efforts of this kind. Actually, the problem is rather more complex, and the use and abuse of the...