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we can sometimes foretell the behaviour of those we think we know . And this is at least some sort of test to distinguish false beliefs from true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how ...
we can sometimes foretell the behaviour of those we think we know . And this is at least some sort of test to distinguish false beliefs from true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how ...
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Such prim objections to laughter seem to have been sometimes because it was unæsthetic , sometimes because it was too uncontrolled , sometimes because it was frivolous , sometimes because it was vulgar .
Such prim objections to laughter seem to have been sometimes because it was unæsthetic , sometimes because it was too uncontrolled , sometimes because it was frivolous , sometimes because it was vulgar .
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Sometimes it is the sick oyster that produces the pearl . Macaulay's paradox that Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to me quite so foolish as is ...
Sometimes it is the sick oyster that produces the pearl . Macaulay's paradox that Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to me quite so foolish as is ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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