Beyond “Whose reality counts?” New methods we now need?Footnote¹

¹ It is a defect of this paper, for which I apologise, that it does not relate directly to other papers in this symposium. All of us are following different paths and have different preoccupations. I hope that in a spirit of pluralist convergence we will find common ground and mutual learning in our discussions.

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