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by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

Many of the terms used in these subject areas do not actually describe "things" so much they do "functions." Similarly, a hand can be described as a fist, or an open palm, or a light hand or a heavy hand, and so forth??"these describe functions of that thing known as a hand. You don’t have a ...

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