contourner

Etant un homme pratique, il dessina une nouvelle route qui contourna la pierre.
Being a practical man he designed a new road route that went around the rock.
Pourtant, la SLL contourna cette tâche en déclarant que les divergences politiques en question n'étaient que des manifestations secondaires de divergences philosophiques, et qu’on pouvait remplacer l’analyse concrète des questions politiques par une discussion abstraite des problèmes épistémologiques.
The SLL avoided this task, however, by declaring that the political differences involved were only secondary manifestations of philosophical differences, and that the concrete investigation of political questions could be replaced by an abstract discussion of epistemological problems.
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