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four-dimensionally

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  • To play checkers well, you have to be able to think four-dimensionally, to anticipate future moves by visualizing the board in other configurations.

    Too stupid for chess Kylopod 2006

  • To play checkers well, you have to be able to think four-dimensionally, to anticipate future moves by visualizing the board in other configurations.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Kylopod 2006

  • For example, perhaps persisting things stretch out four-dimensionally through time, but without being subdivided into temporal parts.

    Temporal Parts Hawley, Katherine 2004

  • "Sheet, man, when will you learn to think four-dimensionally?"

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • In fact, the power of the film isn’t so much from its plot in the conventional narrative sense, but a structure akin to that of the Tralfamadorian novels Kurt Vonnegut describes in Slaughterhouse Five: a series of vignettes which, when viewed from above, as a whole (Vonnegut’s Tralfamadorians see the world four-dimensionally, all times at once) fit together mosaic-like.

    It’s a Jersey Thing 2004

  • Thus, Quine writes, “physical objects, conceived thus four-dimensionally in space and time, are not to be distinguished from events, or, in the concrete sense of the term, processes.

    Identity Noonan, Harold 2006

  • The trouble with most of the dumb tourists is that they can't think four-dimensionally. "

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

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