They reject that formalism as an impediment to language's access to the real, and to our access to the real through language.

他们反对形式主义,将其视为语言与现实之间，和我们通过语言，和现实之间的阻碍。

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What was a kind of impediment to their personal rule?

怎样算是妨碍他们的个人统治呢

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