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Her reading comprehension sheets were filled for each passage with no marked errors and a speed rate in triple digits, but no level was indicated except a note on the last page: “Currently unestablishable due to exceptional speed and frequent digression on all comprehension questions.”
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When I said it was extraordinary that “assuming the truth of an unestablishable proposition should seem so universally beneficial…”, the unestablishable proposition was the one about science above that finley thinks is flawed.
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I took my stand in line with that, as a man on trial for life takes refuge behind an unestablishable alibi.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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I took my stand in line with that, as a man on trial for life takes refuge behind an unestablishable alibi.
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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Isn’t it extraordinary, then, that assuming the truth of an unestablishable proposition should seem so universally beneficial; that it so readily results in an illusion of objective progress…especially considering the same illusion does not result from assuming the truth of so many other propositions…
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Isn’t it extraordinary, then, that assuming the truth of an unestablishable proposition should seem so universally beneficial for example:
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Isn’t it extraordinary, then, that assuming the truth of an unestablishable proposition should seem so universally beneficial; that it so readily results in an illusion of objective progress … especially considering the same illusion does not result from assuming the truth of so many other propositions …
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