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Quote: elements have only a name; combine names into descriptions of complex things
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formalism
Topic:
elements
Topic:
data as a named set of data objects
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SOCRATES: … I seem to have heard some people say … are such that no account can be given … But when we come to things composed of … a description … , a description being precisely a combination of … knowable and explicable, and you can have a … [p. 299, 202E] SOCRATES: Letters--the elements of writing--and syllables. That … think? THEAETETUS: Yes, it was. Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: elements are unknowable; while complexes are knowable and explicable via written letters
Group: formalism (9 topics, 473 quotes)
Topic: elements (18 items)
Topic: data as a named set of data objects (22 items)