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The Scaffolding of Foundational Fictions
The provided text, Bry Willis' essay accompanying the parable about "The Last Unicorn," offers a philosophical argument that many fundamental societal concepts are merely foundational fictions invented to stabilise and legitimise social structures. The author contends that entities like 'the rule of law' or 'the rational agent' function as the titular unicorn: a necessary, invisible centre that allows the supporting architecture, or scaffolding, to maintain coherence without needing a basis in external truth. This coherence, which the essay terms "coherence without correspondence," arises…
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