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- noun The quality of being irreducible.
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- noun The quality of being
irreducible .
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irreducible + -ness
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The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity, but that is to stay too long at the spark, -- which glitters truly at one point, -- but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
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The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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