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... extrapolation but only by positing a new level , a level of emergence , a level of qualitatively different events . Let us first try the method of extrapolation as applied to the biological endowment of mankind . It will be recalled ( p ...
... extrapolation but only by positing a new level , a level of emergence , a level of qualitatively different events . Let us first try the method of extrapolation as applied to the biological endowment of mankind . It will be recalled ( p ...
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... extrapolation of steps to physical invention is impossible , the extrapolation of human modes of dealing with such inventions is feasible . Such extrapolations depend upon what little is known about the gen- eral potentials of the human ...
... extrapolation of steps to physical invention is impossible , the extrapolation of human modes of dealing with such inventions is feasible . Such extrapolations depend upon what little is known about the gen- eral potentials of the human ...
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... extrapolation , 252-54 , 259 Emerson , Ralph Waldo , 141 , 178 emotional roots , 164-68 environment , 244-46 ( see also cul- ture ) Epictetus , 279 Eskimo , 61 , 247 Euclid , 251 eugenics , 226 , 231-39 extrapolation , 252-54 , 258 f ...
... extrapolation , 252-54 , 259 Emerson , Ralph Waldo , 141 , 178 emotional roots , 164-68 environment , 244-46 ( see also cul- ture ) Epictetus , 279 Eskimo , 61 , 247 Euclid , 251 eugenics , 226 , 231-39 extrapolation , 252-54 , 258 f ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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