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^Erskine points out in the following selection that for a number of reasons — a common language being probably the most important — the English have exerted a greater influence upon the United States than has any other people.
^Erskine points out in the following selection that for a number of reasons — a common language being probably the most important — the English have exerted a greater influence upon the United States than has any other people.
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( 2 ) Another important method of control consists in the multiplication of cases or instances . If I doubt whether a certain handful gives a fair sample or one representative , for purposes of judging value , of a whole carload of ...
( 2 ) Another important method of control consists in the multiplication of cases or instances . If I doubt whether a certain handful gives a fair sample or one representative , for purposes of judging value , of a whole carload of ...
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Another way of bringing out this importance of unlikeness is the em- phasis put by the scientist upon negative cases ... Anomalies , exceptions , things that agree in most respects but disagree in some crucial point , are so important ...
Another way of bringing out this importance of unlikeness is the em- phasis put by the scientist upon negative cases ... Anomalies , exceptions , things that agree in most respects but disagree in some crucial point , are so important ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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