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JAMES FALLOWS: Well they're better off in some theoret. .well they're better off in one very practical way there is not crime there.

More Like Us: Making America Great Again 1989

The emperor has — an increasingly theoret - ical — control over the entire realm which is both polit - ical control (sovereignty) and economic control in the sense that he exacts dues and tribute from those who hold the land under him.

PROPERTY WOLFGANG G. FRIEDMANN 1968

The seventeenth century saw a good deal of theoret - ical debate on grammar.

LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

The most recent theoret - ical discussion of the concept, F.E. Sparshott's Concept of Criticism (1967), while scholastically elaborate in its distinctions, comes to the conclusion that there is

LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

By this he added decisively to the knowledge of Indo-European sources, and incidentally raised problems of a theoret - ical sort for the discussion of which there had been no real opportunity since the days of Pallas.

LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

However, to account for these phe - nomena Gassendi reconstructed a version of Epicurean atomism — not as a metaphysics but as a set of theoret - ical constructs to account for appearances, a view which Robert Boyle later characterized as the “cor - puscularean hypothesis.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN 1968

Marx and Engels, who published their earliest theoret - ical writings in his Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher

Dictionary of the History of Ideas H. B. ACTON 1968

Greek philosophy, aesthetics, and theory of music to the Christian West, follows Greek tradition when, in the last chapter of Book I of his De institutione musica, he defines a musician as he “who masters the musical art not through mechanical exercise but after theoret - ical investigation through the power of speculation”

MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968

But in an important later essay (1956), Carnap pre - ferred to recognize most scientific concepts as theoret - ical concepts, whose meaning is to be explicated by postulates and correspondence rules.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT FEIGL 1968

The Marxist contribution to military thought was practical rather than theoret - ical.

WAR AND MILITARISM THEODORE ROPP 1968