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... structure : a social structure of indi- viduals . [ page 40 ] Any closed social group ( an administration , company , secret society ) is composed at a given time of N individuals who belong to n dif- ferent categories i . The ...
... structure : a social structure of indi- viduals . [ page 40 ] Any closed social group ( an administration , company , secret society ) is composed at a given time of N individuals who belong to n dif- ferent categories i . The ...
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... STRUCTURE OF ORGANISMS Any organism , including any machine , is a structure ; to under- stand a machine is to perceive that structure . The only universal dimension of a structure independent of its elements is its com- plexity . It ...
... STRUCTURE OF ORGANISMS Any organism , including any machine , is a structure ; to under- stand a machine is to perceive that structure . The only universal dimension of a structure independent of its elements is its com- plexity . It ...
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... structure of this message as shown on pages 176-177 . This structure more or less synthesizes the two messages , phonetic and musical , studied separately in Chap . V. In this inventory of message structures , we must pay much at ...
... structure of this message as shown on pages 176-177 . This structure more or less synthesizes the two messages , phonetic and musical , studied separately in Chap . V. In this inventory of message structures , we must pay much at ...
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