Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Quite a few posts here over the past few months have been on the subject of social ontology: what can we say about the nature of the social world?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Yes, that needs to be stated up front because the whole of Tactics revolves around the clashing of Haruka’s nature against the nature of the human world which he knows resides in and the nature of Kantarou.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
There are fewer things to expose about the nature of the world, as all the great evils and sins of the current generation are but repeats of previous generations.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This ongoing process (seldom this cut – and – dried) gradually gives rise to reasonably certain inferences about the nature of the world.
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In Wikipedia:
More logically did he declare the material nature of the world to be merely an episode in the spiritual process of development, whose end should be the annihilation of all matter and return to God, who should again be all in all.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It was the place where she could talk to herself and no one would think odd of her, to sing until her throat was sore, and the only place that seemed to be forgiven of this world’s true nature.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
America needs a President who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This is the nature of the world and a reflection of the nature of god.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
To what extent do primary schools and teachers understand the changing nature of the world we are living in and the impact of information and communications technology on society, learning and teaching?
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In Wikipedia:
Souls which are captivated by the illusory nature of the world (Maya) are repeatedly reborn amongst the various species of life on this planet and on other worlds in accordance to the laws of karma and individual desire.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It was a view reinforced by scientific discoveries which challenged traditional religious understandings of the nature of the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I don’t know if I would say I get comfort, perhaps, but that is the nature of the world at times.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Values and beliefs are, hopefully, the culmination of your best estimation of the nature of the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Now with something being logical in practice, taking account the variables of real – life, then it is ethical in practice yet lacking the proper nature of the real world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“It’s a rhetorical question illustrating the bankrupt nature of the world when Christ returns.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I wish there were some way to end this but that is the nature of the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In the past few years, Baucum and Bibey left BlueRidge to go onto other bluegrass projects; such is the nature of the bluegrass world: bands come, bands go.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s the nature of this world.
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(. .)))
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