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discreteness



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The brand, found mostly in Canada, also promises discreteness, and touts the sturdiness of its concealer’s heavy weight aluminum container.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2020

The Kenyan Review had printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve."

From Time Magazine Archive

The shift from the natural to the cultural-with its climax in literacy-was actually from immediacy, circularity, discreteness, and the physical realm to indirectness, sequentiality, linearity, and metaphysics.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

But its apparent discreteness is due to a failure to distinguish between the silent, unobtrusive working of comparison and the more obvious and self-conscious working.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker

Out of no amount of discreteness can you manufacture the concrete.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James




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