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  1. J. M. Bocheński, ‘Why Studies in Soviet Philosophy’,SST 1963,1.

  2. Ibid., p. 2.

  3. Ibid., p. 7.

  4. Ibid., p. 3–4.

  5. R. T. De George, ‘The Foundations of Marxist-Leninist Ethics’,SST 1963,2, and, by the same author, ‘Marxist-Leninist Ethics: A Rejoinder’,SST 1964,4, 305–307.

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  13. Op. cit., p. 4. Bocheński makes the very point I am making in ‘On Philosophical Thought’, pp. 253–254 above.

  14. In reviewing current Soviet criticism of the ‘bourgeois falsificators of Marxist-Leninist philosophy’ P. Beemans asked in some perplexity, “where do the Soviets dig up these ‘well-known American philosophers’ whom they are perennially quoting in so many of their books?”,SST 1965,4, 331.

  15. This writer found that nine out of a total of 38 official research projects assigned to Hungarian philosophers are expressly devoted to the criticism of contemporary Western philosophy. Cf. E. Laszlo, ‘The Planification of Hungarian Marxism-Leninism,’SST 1965,4, 284–286.

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  19. The most acute interest generated by such a visit was accorded A. J. Ayer in March, 1962. For an account of the contacts and controversies between Ayer and the Soviets, see D. D. Comey, ‘A Positivist Among the Dialecticians’,SST 1962,3.

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  29. Ibid., p. 57.

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  33. First published in Hungarian asA tudományos meghatározás, Budapest 1961; later also published in English and German.

  34. György Tamás, ‘És mi van a fejekben?’,Valóság 1966,11.

  35. InBeyond Scepticism and Realism, op. cit., Part III.

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Laszlo, E. The second Sovietology. Studies in Soviet Thought 6, 274–290 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832612

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