La Double Postulation

َتعيينُ محل‬ ّ َ َ ِْ ِ ْ َّ َ ‫مُوطن‬ ‫وطن‬ َ َّ َ ‫ضرر‬ َ َ َ َ ‫ھ َبة، َتبرع، عطاء‬ ُّ َ ِ َ َْ ‫موھُوب له‬ ‫مانح، واھب‬ ِ ِ َ َ ،‫ھبة‬ ‫ِ َ تبرع‬ ُّ َ َ ْ ‫مُعطى‬ ً ْ ‫مُعطى‬ ‫واھب، مانح‬ ِ َ ِ 83 Dossier Dot Dotation Doter Douane Douanier Double Doyen Doyenneté Drainage Dresser Droit Droiture Dû Dualisme Dualité Ducroire Dûment Dumping Duopole Duplex Duplicata Duplicateur Dupliquer Durabilité Durable Durer Dynamique Dynamisation Dynamisme Dynamo Dynastie Dynastique Eau Ebauche Ebaucher Ecart

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, a work of political history that has 36 become influential as theory, that works of literature – particularly novels – helped to create national communities by their postulation of and appeal to a broad community of readers, bounded yet in principle open to all who could read the language. ‘Fiction’, Anderson writes, ‘seeps quietly and continuously into reality, creating that remarkable confidence of community in anonymity

that if the soul was a part of the natural world and brains were machines, then men have no free will, no moral choices and therefore no control over their destiny. Deism offered some protection, for it gave the universe a moral purpose, and the postulation of a caretaker creator-God recommended itself even to Voltaire. But convinced atheists like Diderot struggled with the implications of philosophical determinism: can man be happy if what he thinks and does is the result of the operations of an automatic