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Michael Polanyi Quotes: Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
         

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.


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And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.



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