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Nicetomeetyou Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Apposition?

In explaining the following sentence, I want to use the word 'apposition.' I wonder wher her my interpretation is correct.

a sense = what a philosopher has called the system of vital ideas


Universities have aimed at providing a liberal education in depth. Specialization should come only after some aquaintance with what a philosopher has called the system of vital ideas which every age possesses and by which it lives, a sense at least of the whole range of human achievement.

  

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what a philosopher has called the system of vital ideas which every age possesses and by which it lives, a sense at least of the whole range of human achievement. That construction is fine.

  • what a philosopher has called the system of vital ideas which every age possesses and by which it lives, a sense at least of the whole range of human achievement.
  • That construction is fine.
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nicetomeetyou...what a philosopher has called the system of vital ideas which every age possesses and by which it lives, a sense at least of the whole range of human achievement.

That construction is fine.

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