All such propositions must involve reference to some individual and predicating some property of that individual. |
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In arguments of this form, all three propositions are universal, affirmative, and assertoric. |
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It was stated that contentious propositions are often highly offensive to the public in general. |
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Half those guys are introducing propositions involving bathrooms and back-alleys. |
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The disciplined practise or study of law does require you state concrete propositions with precision. |
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One need not evaluate the scientific evidence for the assertions made to question the tenability of the propositions. |
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This is merely badgering the witness and editorialising, so you know, Senator, on both grounds your propositions are out of order. |
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These are culturally biased statements of opinion, not scientifically supportable propositions. |
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In the first place, it may be wondered why we should need to include both maximal possible states of affairs and propositions in our ontology. |
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Furthermore, he holds that certain primitive emotions influence action tendencies without the mediation of propositions or concepts. |
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Although not in so many words, no political theorist, Rihani largely subscribed to these propositions and to this conception of the political. |
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He claims that if we know of no propositions that serve as evidence for God's existence, then we cannot rationally believe in God. |
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The only properly basic propositions are those that are self-evident or incorrigible or evident to the senses. |
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The challenge now is to transform those policies into sellable propositions. |
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None of us on this side of the House plays games when we are presented with serious propositions to defend the national interest. |
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Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world. |
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The bishop managed to secure small majorities on the propositions that he should allow reservation for the sick. |
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If you can reason from self-evident propositions and not contradict the laws of logic as you reason, anything you deduce can only be true. |
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Both propositions are correct, but they do not cast blame upon the capitalistic system of social cooperation. |
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These are unexceptionable propositions, but there is more to the urban environment than that. |
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Again, I and O propositions are subcontrary, but not contrary or contradictory. |
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Book One discusses his laws of motion then proceeds to a series of propositions, theorems and problems. |
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There are no sentential complements, though pronouns and some noun phrases can be used to refer to explicit or evoked propositions. |
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The booklet had a list of propositions, or suggestions for changes on the city and state levels. |
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The same holds true also of propositions of price theory which follow from the laws of supply and demand. |
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He challenged existing theoretical propositions which he believed were only rationalization of current practices. |
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The first seven of the philosophical propositions bear on the nature and excellence of philosophy. |
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The theory that existence is not a predicate implies, however, that all existential propositions are synthetic. |
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But propositions can also be about classes, including classes of propositions. |
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What of hypothetical propositions like if it is raining now, then either it is raining or it is snowing? |
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Critics vary somewhat in the closeness with which they make such general propositions fit individual writers. |
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He connects it with the thesis that only universal propositions can be known. |
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The Atomic Theory explains both propositions if it is assumed that atoms are indivisible and form complexes in fixed ratios. |
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Wired into the way we are forced to live there are silent imperatives, unspoken propositions about the world. |
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If these simple or elementary propositions reflected the facts, then they could be verified against the facts. |
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He also discusses the disjunctive propositions which follow from a conditional proposition. |
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Although they are generalized propositions, principles are dissimilar from rules. |
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He gives propositions determining the centre of curvature which lead immediately to the Cartesian equation of the evolute. |
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So, singular negative existential propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones. |
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Yesable propositions are suggested settlements that are likely to be agreed to because they meet the other parties' interests and needs. |
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Can early words be seen as holophrases in that they refer to whole propositions? |
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For a proposition to be justified it must, at the very least, cohere with other propositions that one has adopted. |
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One maximal consistent set of propositions is distinctive in that all of the propositions belonging to it are true. |
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The antecedent comprises the two propositions, the one of which enounces the general rule. |
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But general propositions cannot be known by inference from atomic facts alone. |
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It begins with signs building to propositions which attempt to develop perception. |
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The main rules and propositions were generalized and formalized in field manuals and regulations. |
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What happens if he is apprised of this fact, perhaps by being presented with an argument from those propositions to the denial of? |
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Despite constant negativism in the press, these are two propositions that most Americans are willing to accept if the President makes the case. |
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My experience is that the two propositions set forth in the preceding paragraph are articles of faith among this crowd. |
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A promiscuous woman is a loose woman. Note that in all three propositions, the reference is to sexual promiscuity. |
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That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions. |
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Ethical propositions are properly seen as projections of our concerns and attitudes, rather than as references to some property of the world. |
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Today, when we speak of scientific knowledge, we are not referring to a body of propositions that any one person knows to be true. |
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Dewey held that value judgments express propositions that are subject to empirical testing and verification. |
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It is said that from that result Pascal derived all of Apollonius' theorems on conics and more, no fewer than 400 propositions in all. |
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Just such propositions take us beyond the limits of empirical particularity. |
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She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. |
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Such 'pragmatically self-verifying' propositions seem too specialized to serve as models for foundational judgements generally. |
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As I mentioned, the basic propositions are predicates applied to single individuals. |
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This is expressed by saying that compound propositions are truth-functions of their component atomic propositions. |
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Mindful of this caution, it is, nevertheless, possible to advance the following propositions. |
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The result has been a number of studies that have tested many of his core assumptions and propositions. |
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He uses his exploration of these long-forgotten characters and their arcane quarrels to advance three propositions. |
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Rather than testing the effectiveness of a theory in clinical practice, basic research tests the validity of the propositions of the theory. |
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Mathematical formulas and sentences do not express true or false propositions about any subject-matter. |
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There is a very important distinction between propositions that are true and propositions that are false. |
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For example, Spinoza's Ethics has the same format as Euclid's Elements, containing propositions and demonstrations. |
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This second commentary is on al-Samarqandi's famous short work of only 20 pages in which he discusses thirty-five of Euclid's propositions. |
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Theoretical propositions and recommendations were used in various conditions. |
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Gone are the days of 1999 to 2001 when certain business propositions were funded at valuations based on overoptimistic revenue streams. |
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And he also told an Edinburgh audience that there were immense business propositions if nations were prepared to work together. |
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As soon as some people view you as successful they offer you one of the dumbest business propositions ever. |
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The exhibition aims at popularising horticulture and related activities as viable business propositions. |
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Three reactionary propositions are on the ballot in the March 7 California primary election. |
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Yes, but those propositions are themselves propositions of constitutional law, are they not? |
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The committee will have a much more thorough look at the propositions being put forward in this bill. |
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He brought me cookies his wife made and he propositions me while I'm eating one. |
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Against that, the following propositions can shortly be advanced. |
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I leave it to you, dear reader, to draw the ninth, unstated lesson that seems to follow ineluctably from these eight relatively inarguable propositions. |
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I have laid down four propositions which I think cannot be controverted. |
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Such propositions appear only as premises, never as conclusions. |
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My Lords, I think that these are instinctual sentences, not logical propositions or syllogisms, none the worse for that because we are not in the field of pure logic. |
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As a publisher, it propositions me all the time to buy names. |
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She also approaches businesses with propositions for aid in all forms. |
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The propositions garnered majority support in every county in the state with the exception of San Francisco and four counties in rural Northern California. |
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Sermons preached about economic matters all too often come across as dry, dead propositions pedantically presented to provide proof that we are living the wrong way. |
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So the real, indemonstrable axioms are identical propositions. |
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Logical inferences are then defined as relations between propositions or sentences, abstracting from the mental attitudes that go along with them. |
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According to Mill, many mathematical propositions are not even true at all, let alone necessarily true and indubitable, and let alone a priori knowable. |
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According to Kant, antinomies are not genuine contradictions, since both of the propositions that constitute them are false, being based on a false assumption. |
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For my part I would accept those propositions as broadly correct. |
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Subject to these general propositions we must turn to English procedural law in order to determine at what point of time an English Court is seised of the proceedings. |
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Not everything demonstrable can be known by finding definitions, since all definitions are universal and affirmative whereas some demonstrable propositions are negative. |
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But over the past year, the evidence in support of all three propositions has just kept mounting. |
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None of the propositions that I have placed before the Court thus far, with perhaps the exception of the relevance of the precontract correspondence, can be controverted. |
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In the 24 hours I have been carrying the book around in public I have received propositions on the bus, in an oculist's waiting room and from a passing chief executive. |
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Common cursing achieves its desired result in part by breaking that taboo whereas execratory cursing conveys its force through its literal propositions. |
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Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., existential and disjunctive statements. |
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But all three propositions are false and antithetical to all that conservatism teaches about the importance of cultural inertia and historical circumstances. |
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Most of the propositions advanced by evolutionary psychologists are rather blunt instruments in the field, especially when it comes to emotions where nuance is often all. |
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By extending our continuum beyond the ultimates of audacity and nugacity, we shall find ourselves confronted with propositions which are not only unremarkable but devoid of interest whatsoever. |
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A helpful assumption often made in axiology is that intrinsic value is had not just by anything at all, but rather by states of affairs or propositions. |
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As I write, two propositions from which every mainstream Jew in the last millennium would have instantly recoiled have become legitimate options within Orthodox Judaism. |
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Transcending the nugacity end of the continuum, we would enter into the area of necessarily, analytically, logically, notationally, demonstratively, absolutely-true propositions or tautologies. |
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The authors offer some propositions which I take to be logically flawed. |
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That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions. |
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Without a much more thorough linkage between theory and fact, the book's central historical and theoretical propositions must be viewed as unproven. |
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In the first 57 propositions in On the Section of a Cone Serenus examined triangular sections of right and scalene cones made by planes passing through the vertex. |
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Heteronymies, or propositions false in S by virtue of the meanings of the terms entering in them. |
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It is obvious that not only were the propositions rejected, but the governor received a kick in his muscle-bound gluteus maximus. |
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He is hailed by postmodernists for his fictive propositions and counterlives. |
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Later, he propositions Peggy once more, this time in her office. |
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Thus, by analogy, philosophical propositions will involve primitive terms, to be arrived at, undoubtably, by a kind of conceptual analysis. |
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This allows the application of probability to all sorts of propositions rather than just ones that come with a reference class. |
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Like many propositions that look irresistible at first glance, claims outsourcing has proven a compelling but elusive goal for many insurers. |
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Beliefs are commonly analyzed as binary relations between subjects and propositions. |
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For such propositions unimaginability looks like a function of a kind of conceptual impossibility. |
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The ampersand character in many logics acts as an operator connecting two propositions. |
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An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference. |
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In this book he aims to resuscitate the face-value theory with an account of propositions as pleonastic entities. |
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Obviously, neither the list of asserted propositions nor the list of nonasserted propositions is complete. |
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To accomplish this, Wills gives us a series of wildly contrarian takes on a wide variety of anti-government propositions. |
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It may be applied as an operation on notions, propositions, truth values, or semantic values more generally. |
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He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. |
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Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions. |
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One might suggest that I take no pleasure in not being sick just because it is impossible to enjoy propositions that are not true, or that the enjoyer does not believe. |
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Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors. |
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Staging the global weltschmerz but not making a fetish of it, these curators and artists wrest compelling propositions from the vexations of their respective forms. |
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In addition he reviews Wittgenstein's remarks about truth functions, molecular propositions, generality, types, identity and other more specific topics. |
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There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. |
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The author ends with a proposal as to how to understand Wittgenstein's claim that all propositions can be analyzed as truth functions of elementary propositions. |
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As some opponents of wage labour take influence from Marxist propositions, many are opposed to private property, but maintain respect for personal property. |
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In other words, does reflection on human action justify the formulation of prescriptive propositions, or is it merely delineable in descriptive terms? |
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The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. |
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