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  • I prefer to think of myself as an Andersonian, which is the only safe thing that I can think of.

    Impostors in the Temple 1992

  • Most of its stories were TV21 reprints, meatier and grittier than the TV versions but still flawed by overall Andersonian optimism.

    Yatterings » The New World Order according to Ben Jeapes 2007

  • Prior goes on to defend his account of modality as quantification over possible states of affairs against various alternatives, for example the Andersonian account, according to which ˜Every table here is necessarily brown™ means ˜There is a property which every table here in fact possesses, and of which it is true that everything that possesses it is in fact brown™.

    The Sun Is Not 2009

  • So, reflecting on the fact that SDL+ is derivable in KTd, we see that the Andersonian-Kangerian reduction must either rely on a non-truth-implicating conception of necessity in order for its pure deontic fragment to match SDL, or SDL itself is not susceptible to the Andersonian-Kangerian reduction.

    Deontic Logic McNamara, Paul 2006

  • Put another way, the most plausible version of the Andersonian-Kangerian reduction can't help but view

    Deontic Logic McNamara, Paul 2006

  • The spots unfold on oversized sets of Brobdingnagian scale and Andersonian attention to detail.

    Bottle Racket 2005

  • The spots unfold on oversized sets of Brobdingnagian scale and Andersonian attention to detail.

    Bottle Racket 2005

  • Thenceforward his summers were spent directing works and ruling workmen, now in uninhabited, now in half-savage islands; his winters were set apart, first at the Andersonian Institution, then at the University of Edinburgh to improve himself in mathematics, chemistry, natural history, agriculture, moral philosophy, and logic; a bearded student — although no doubt scrupulously shaved.

    Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

  • By that time you are flustered, forget the Andersonian grace, and utter some emphatic words about tidies and tidy matters in general, and sit down with a real Castletonian kick.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • Dr. King in Simon's Bay, of the 'Cambrian' frigate, one of our class-mates in the Andersonian.

    The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

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