"Metaphysical Making"

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Gass, William H. 1953. “‘Metaphysical Making’.”, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/14431

Title: "Metaphysical Making"
Description: The first ten pages of the first chapter of Gass's dissertation, "A Philosophical Investigation of Metaphor," for his PhD in philosophy from Cornell University. The dissertation is sixteen chapters total, with each chapter bound and titled separately.
Date: 1954
Type: Manuscript
Format: Text; jpeg files
Creator: Gass, William H.
Extent: Selection: 10 pages
Language: English
Source: William H. Gass Papers
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Subject: Gass, William H., 1924---Education.

Gass, William H. 1953. “‘Metaphysical Making’.”, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/14431