Congrats to Clinton.

• Author: Deale, Alan
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

In Kate Clinton's article "The Glee Party" (February issue), she ends by saying that she has decided to act "as if." Does she realize that she is in company with an important German philosopher of the nineteenth century? I speak of Hans Vaihinger, who promulgated a whole philosophy of religion based on the concept of "as...