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One reason for my reluctance to be seen as engaging myself in the struggle for realism is that there is a straightforward sense of 'realism' for which no such struggle would warrant itself - for every minimally plausible semantic theory trivially has to be 'realistic' in this sense.

Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus.

CHAPTER 3. STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.

STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.

OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

According to my schema, the attempted error-elimination, that is, the struggle for survival-will bring out the inherent weakness of each of the proposed solutions in the form of a new problem.

And the struggle in the particles is modified also; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence.

For if there be air under the water it rapidly ascends to the surface by that motion of percussion (as Democritus calls it) by which the descending water strikes and raises the air upward; not by any effort or struggle of the air itself.

While thus engaged, indeed, they show themselves active and struggle for it with agility and swiftness enough, as weary and impatient of all delay.

For if a man be pinned to the ground, tied hand and foot, or otherwise held fast, and yet struggle to rise with all his might, the resistance is not the less though it be unsuccessful.