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But oratory is a null program. That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Occam held that universals only exist as part of human understanding. In reality everything is singular. In other words, concepts like ‘species’, ‘redness’, or even ‘man’, which name a range of objects that are united by some common form or feature, are purely inventions of the human understanding: ways of collecting together many individual objects for psychological simplicity.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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