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  • Likewise, "modernism" is not "NOT modernism" - and therefore "postmodernism" is necessarily and anti-thetically opposed to "modernism" (as if the mirror opposite); Derrida's de-construction must always and only (by this aristotelian binary) be deconstructive (i.e., never positive - as if a modern construct of any species must be necessarily positive).

    The View From Everywhere: Impartiality, Objectivity and Other Ideals James F. McGrath 2009

  • DOBBS: And the question really rises because I'm one of those people who is absolutely anti-thetically, passionately against identity politics.

    CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2004 2004

  • Say, hypo-thetically, the Kuomintang wanted this VIP on their side.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Say, hypo-thetically, the Kuomintang wanted this VIP on their side.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Later he retorted that “to examine how colors may be explained hypo - thetically is besides my purpose” (ibid., p. 144).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

  • That Ranulph, his dying friend had fo pa - thetically charged him to feek.

    Mysteries elucidated [by A.M. Mackenzie]. 1795

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