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Under construction was a whole realm of abstraction, forcibly divorced from the concrete.
Havelock described it as cultural warfare,
a new consciousness and a new language at war with the old consciousness...
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“Their conflict produced essential and permanent contributions to the vocabulary ...
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permanence and...
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combination and se...
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counters of common currency now...
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The persistence of writing made it possible to impose structure on what was known about the world
on what was known about knowing.
For Aristotle the most basic notions were worth recording and were necessary to record:
This was a radical, alien mode of thought.
For “the multitude” we may understand “the preliterate.”
