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The Development of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century
Owen Barfield was a huge influence on tolken and all the other inklings. He writes these wonderful accounts e of of the poetry of language, and the way in which all terms in language are originally poetic. And what happens through time is that the poetry gets ossified into a term that appears to be indelible and adamantine. But yes, he also has this notion ofe kind of subject has very fine and glandly,. i am sure e cleverman, but am the truth is, we got the term volcano and the term eruption, now we know what they refer to. We can measure the extent of volcanic eruption in periods long before ar ca. 4
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