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... possible nouns . We want to go beyond the random connection of any given noun with any given pre- ceding adjective ; we have , let us say , a hundred adjectives in search of a noun . But if we have used the machine many times ...
... possible nouns . We want to go beyond the random connection of any given noun with any given pre- ceding adjective ; we have , let us say , a hundred adjectives in search of a noun . But if we have used the machine many times ...
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... possible to believe in " the withering away of the state " and the disappearance of state control as such if it were possible to believe that destructive weapons , as they exist in the hands of a large number of persons in an atomic age ...
... possible to believe in " the withering away of the state " and the disappearance of state control as such if it were possible to believe that destructive weapons , as they exist in the hands of a large number of persons in an atomic age ...
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... possible that emergence involves not merely a progressive identification of new levels but the re- currence at each level of certain universal principles which must therefore be viewed as master principles which are essentially the same ...
... possible that emergence involves not merely a progressive identification of new levels but the re- currence at each level of certain universal principles which must therefore be viewed as master principles which are essentially the same ...
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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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