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... pattern derived from previous patterns and differentiated from other contem- porary patterns which , in order to be stable , have to be relatively firm and inflexible . In Chapter 5 we seemed to find our reason for this in the process ...
... pattern derived from previous patterns and differentiated from other contem- porary patterns which , in order to be stable , have to be relatively firm and inflexible . In Chapter 5 we seemed to find our reason for this in the process ...
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... patterns or ordered experience . To be sensi- tive to tones means that soon there are melodies and soon there- after harmonized patterns , as experienced in the part - singing of the school chorus or the barbershop quartet or the glee ...
... patterns or ordered experience . To be sensi- tive to tones means that soon there are melodies and soon there- after harmonized patterns , as experienced in the part - singing of the school chorus or the barbershop quartet or the glee ...
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... patterns that are waiting to be grasped . Perhaps the third human nature will find itself , as its flexibility increases , glimpsing the cosmic pattern that will re- lease its own inner pattern . • Extrapolation versus Emergence Let us ...
... patterns that are waiting to be grasped . Perhaps the third human nature will find itself , as its flexibility increases , glimpsing the cosmic pattern that will re- lease its own inner pattern . • Extrapolation versus Emergence Let us ...
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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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