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.
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.