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... matter how we may pursue the abstractions , are des- tined to bring into the analysis those individual and social cen- tering processes which are a part of our own rearing and out- look . This is simply part of the package to be ...
... matter how we may pursue the abstractions , are des- tined to bring into the analysis those individual and social cen- tering processes which are a part of our own rearing and out- look . This is simply part of the package to be ...
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... matter of fact , most of Western Europe since the collapse of the medieval system has been a fair exemplification of just this , except that the science and technology moved toward their central position only slowly . Actually there was ...
... matter of fact , most of Western Europe since the collapse of the medieval system has been a fair exemplification of just this , except that the science and technology moved toward their central position only slowly . Actually there was ...
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... matter of putting two external events together . The observer puts himself into the equation , simply because , as Einstein so well put it , there are no " privileged posi- tions " from which observations can be made . As the philosophy ...
... matter of putting two external events together . The observer puts himself into the equation , simply because , as Einstein so well put it , there are no " privileged posi- tions " from which observations can be made . As the philosophy ...
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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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