Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking

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4. I do like Ms Atwood.

And she also includes, in an appendix, her letter to a school district board in San Antonio after it banned her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" (a decision since reversed) for its strong sexual content. "I would like to thank those who have dedicated themselves so energetically to the banning of my novel," she begins. "It's encouraging to know that the written word is still taken so seriously."

But anyway, "virtually" is a perfectly good word, so long as it is not used to dismiss the exceptions that require it. It is the advertising and public relations businesses that have reduced it to meaningless mush. And it has also been co-opted by the computer business to mean explicitly "not real", or "simulated", which begins to be amusing.