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... speech no longer sufficed to describe this insis- tently dynamic world or served to direct it . For this purpose new symbols and logical operations were needed , those of algebra , trigonometry , the differential calculus , vector ...
... speech no longer sufficed to describe this insis- tently dynamic world or served to direct it . For this purpose new symbols and logical operations were needed , those of algebra , trigonometry , the differential calculus , vector ...
Page 69
... speech , for in discarding or blurring the detailed structure , it has effected a completely mechanical separation of the emotive and informative functions of speech . The output of this infernal machine is perfectly intelligible and ...
... speech , for in discarding or blurring the detailed structure , it has effected a completely mechanical separation of the emotive and informative functions of speech . The output of this infernal machine is perfectly intelligible and ...
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... speech it becomes , if one may use the classic New Testament description , incarnate in the flesh , and makes itself known by appropriate bodily changes . Do not suppose that the preliminary phases of intuition and ideation are in any ...
... speech it becomes , if one may use the classic New Testament description , incarnate in the flesh , and makes itself known by appropriate bodily changes . Do not suppose that the preliminary phases of intuition and ideation are in any ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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