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Author: John-Michael Kuczynski
Publisher: John-Michael Kuczynski
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Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Epistemology In The 21st Century Five Works eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Five distinctively modern works on the theory of knowledge. Table of Contents The Basic Principles of Knowledge Management Epistemology in an Hour A Crash Course in Epistemology Epistemology Empiricism and Its Limits

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Author: Alvin Goldman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195334616
Size: 79.22 MB
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Release Date: 2011-02-11
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Social Epistemology Essential Readings eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such as legal juries and scientific research-sharing schemes, to promote knowledge among the people who engage in them? When different groups of people judge different beliefs to be justified, how can we tell which groups are correct? These questions are at the heart of the vital discipline of social epistemology. The classic articles in this volume address these questions in ways that are both cutting-edge and easy to understand. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students in epistemology.

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Author: Michael Hannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190914726
Size: 10.79 MB
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Release Date: 2019
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF What S The Point Of Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of epistemic evaluation in human life. Michael Hannon calls this approach function-first epistemology. To Hannon, the concept of knowledge is used to identify reliable informants; this practice is necessary, or at least deeply important, because it plays a vital role in human survival, cooperation, and flourishing. Though a seemingly simple idea, function-first epistemology has wide-reaching implications. From this premise, Hannon casts new light on the very nature and value of knowledge, the differences between knowledge and understanding, the relationship between knowledge, assertion, and practical reasoning, and the semantics of knowledge claims. This book forges new paths into some classic philosophical puzzles, including the Gettier problem, epistemic relativism, and philosophical skepticism. What's the Point of Knowledge? shows that pivotal issues in epistemology can be resolved by taking a function-first approach, demonstrating the significant role that this method can play in contemporary philosophy.

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Book Detail:
Author: R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195073249
Size: 23.12 MB
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Release Date: 1992
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemporary Perspectives On Religious Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This unique textbook--the first to offer balanced, comprehensive coverage of all major perspectives on the rational justification of religious belief--includes twenty-four key papers by some of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Arranged in six sections, each representing a major approach to religious epistemology, the book begins with papers by noted atheists, setting the stage for the main theistic responses--Wittgensteinian Fideism, Reformed epistemology, natural theology, prudential accounts of religious beliefs, and rational belief based in religious experience--in each case offering a representative sample of papers by leading exponents, a critical paper, and a substantial bibliography. A comprehensive introductory essay and ample cross-references help students to contrast and evaluate the different approaches, while the overall arrangement encourages them to assess the full range of philosophical positions on the issue. Carefully selected to provide both a comprehensive overview of current work and a series of modern perspectives on many classic sources--Swinburne's detailed discussion of Hume's critique of the design argument, for example, as well as an entire section evaluating and extending Pascal's famous Wager--the essays also provide a uniquely readable survey that will be useful in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of religion and epistemology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jack S. Crumley II
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770481567
Size: 58.21 MB
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Release Date: 2009-07-30
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF An Introduction To Epistemology Second Edition eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The second edition of Jack Crumley’s An Introduction to Epistemology strikes a balance between the many issues that engage contemporary epistemologists and the contributions of the major historical figures. He shows not only how philosophers such as Descartes, Hume, Locke, Berkeley, and Kant foreground the contemporary debates, but also why they deserve consideration on their own terms. A substantial revision of the first edition, the second edition is even more accessible to students. The new edition includes recent work on contextualism, evidentialism, externalism and internalism, and perceptual realism; as well, the chapter on coherence theory is substantially revised, reflecting recent developments in that area. New to this second edition is a chapter on feminist epistemology, which includes discussions of major positions and themes, such as feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint epistemology, postmodern epistemology, and feminist critiques of objectivity. It presents the important contributions of philosophers such as Sandra Harding, Helen Longino, Genevieve Lloyd, and others. Each chapter ends with a list of study questions and readings for further study.

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Author: Robert Audi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113479181X
Size: 80.11 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2005-06-20
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mikkel Gerken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198803451
Size: 34.77 MB
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Release Date: 2017
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF On Folk Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. On Folk Epistemology exlpores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others. Mikkel Gerken draws on both cognitive psychology and traditional philosophical reflection, while also contributing to epistemology, to lay the foundation for the study of folk epistemology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Claudia Fernández-Fernández
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030696065
Size: 11.65 MB
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Release Date: 2021-06-19
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Awareness In Logic And Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book creates a conceptual schema that acts as a correlation between Epistemology and Epistemic Logic. It connects both fields and offers a proper theoretical foundation for the contemporary developments of Epistemic Logic regarding the dynamics of information. It builds a bridge between the view of Awareness Justification Internalism, and a dynamic approach to Awareness Logic. The book starts with an introduction to the main topics in Epistemic Logic and Epistemology and reviews the disconnection between the two fields. It analyses three core notions representing the basic structure of the conceptual schema: “Epistemic Awareness”, “Knowledge” and “Justification”. Next, it presents the Explicit Aware Knowledge (EAK) Schema, using a diagram of three ellipses to illustrate the schema, and a formal model based on a neighbourhood-model structure, that shows one concrete application of the EAK-Schema into a logical structure. The book ends by presenting conclusions and final remarks about the uses and applications of the EAK-Schema. It shows that the most important feature of the schema is that it serves both as a theoretical correlate to the dynamic extensions of Awareness Logic, providing it with a philosophical background, and as an abstract conceptual structure for a re-interpretation of Epistemology.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Fetzer
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
ISBN:
Size: 68.56 MB
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Release Date: 1993
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Glossary Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epistemology is the study of ordinary knowledge in every day life. Philosophy of Science examines the nature of knowledge as it is discovered through scientific inquiry. Here is an accessible, down-to-earth reference for students, scholars, and general readers who want to understand both disciplines. Entries define key concepts and foreign terms, introduce major thinkers, and elucidate fine distinctions. Contents: preface; glossary; references; bibliography; about the authors.

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Book Detail:
Author: Shannon Sullivan
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791471029
Size: 61.54 MB
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Release Date: 2007-05-10
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Race And Epistemologies Of Ignorance eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills's claim that racism involves an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance. Contributors, explore how different forms of ignorance linked to race are produced and sustained and what role they play in promoting racism and white privilege. They argue that the ignorance that underpins racism is not a simple gap in knowledge, the accidental result of an epistemological oversight. In the case of racial oppression, ignorance often is actively produced for purposes of domination and exploitation. But as these essays demonstrate, ignorance is not simply a tool of oppression wielded by the powerful. It can also be a strategy for survival, an important tool for people of color to wield against white privilege and white supremacy. The book concludes that understanding ignorance and the politics of such ignorance should be a key element of epistemological and social/political analyses, for it has the potential to reveal the role of power in the construction of what is known and provide a lens for the political values at work in knowledge practices. Book jacket.

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Book Detail:
Author: GEORG. BRUN
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ISBN: 9781138245808
Size: 63.55 MB
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Release Date: 2016
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Download PDF Epistemology And Emotions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steven B. Cowan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350016071
Size: 69.80 MB
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Release Date: 2020-02-06
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Problems In Epistemology And Metaphysics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Problems in Epistemology and Metaphysics takes a pro and con approach to two central philosophical topics. Each chapter begins with a question: Can We Have Knowledge? How are Beliefs Justified? What is the mind? Contemporary philosophers with opposing viewpoints are then paired together to argue their position and raise problems with conflicting standpoints. Alongside an up-to-date introduction to a core philosophical stance, each contributor provides a critical response to their opponent and clear explanation of their view. Discussion questions are included at the end of each chapter to guide further discussion. With chapters covering core questions surrounding religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, truth, being and reality, this is a comprehensive introduction to debates lying at the heart of what we know, how we know it and the nature of the world we live in.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harvey Siegel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019068268X
Size: 58.43 MB
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Release Date: 2017-09-08
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Education S Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking; argues that that epistemic quality must be understood ultimately in terms of epistemic rationality; defends a conception of rationality that involves both rules and judgment; and argues that critical thinking has normative value over and above its instrumental tie to truth. Siegel also argues, contrary to currently popular multiculturalist thought, for both transcultural and universal philosophical ideals, including those of multiculturalism and critical thinking themselves.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ernest Sosa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400883059
Size: 70.21 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-01-17
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the subject In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the past through memory, the future through induction, or the world’s depth and structure through inference. This book steps back for a better view of the more general issues posed by the ancient Greek Pyrrhonists. Returning to and illuminating this older, broader epistemological tradition, Ernest Sosa develops an original account of the subject, giving it substance not with Cartesian theology but with science and common sense. Descartes is a part of this ancient tradition, but he goes beyond it by considering not just whether knowledge is possible at all but also how we can properly attain it. In Cartesian epistemology, Sosa finds a virtue-theoretic account, one that he extends beyond the Cartesian context. Once epistemology is viewed in this light, many of its problems can be solved or fall away. The result is an important reevaluation of epistemology that will be essential reading for students and teachers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lieven Decock
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042012417
Size: 28.15 MB
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Release Date: 2000
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Quine eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the contents: Naturalistic epistemology, murder and suicide? But what about the promises! (Ton Derksen). - Naturalism and rationality (Christopher Hookway). - Quine's hypothetical theory of language learning: a comparison of different conceptualschemes of their logic (Mia Gosselin). - Quine and innate similarity spaces (Jaap van Brakel). - Quine and Davidson on the structure of empirical knowledge (Dirk Koppelberg). - Empathy and charity (Eva Picardi). - Quine: indeterminacy, 'robust realism', and truth (Sandra Laugier). - Quine and Putnam on conceptual relativity and reference: theft or honest toil? (Roger Vergauwen).

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen Stich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190865105
Size: 73.83 MB
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Release Date: 2018-06-06
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Epistemology For The Rest Of The World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word 'know' and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including contextualists and subject-sensitive invariantists are concerned with the truth conditions of "S knows that p," or the proposition it expresses. In all of this literature, the method of cases is used, where a situation is described in English, and then philosophers judge whether it is true that S knows that p, or whether saying "S knows that p" is false, deviant, etc. in that situation. However, English is just one of over 6000 languages spoken around the world, and is the native language of less than 6% of the world's population. When Western epistemology first emerged, in ancient Greece, English did not even exist. So why should we think that facts about the English word "know," the concept it expresses, or subtle semantic properties of "S knows that p" have important implications for epistemology? Are the properties of the English word "know" and the English sentence 'S knows that p' shared by their translations in most or all languages? If that turned out to be true, it would be a remarkable fact that cries out for an explanation. But if it turned out to be false, what are the implications for epistemology? Should epistemologists study knowledge attributions in languages other than English with the same diligence they have shown for the study of English knowledge attributions? If not, why not? In what ways do the concepts expressed by 'know' and its counterparts in different languages differ? And what should epistemologists make of all this? The papers collected here discuss these questions and related issues, and aim to contribute to this important topic and epistemology in general.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215154
Size: 30.50 MB
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Release Date: 2002
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Social Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the "Science Wars."In Social Epistemology Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places. In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science "retains and accumulates" knowledge? Finally, Fuller proposes a course of "Knowledge Policy Studies" designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Fumerton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405125666
Size: 34.40 MB
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Release Date: 2006-01-09
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epistemology is an accessible and indispensable volume for undergraduates studying philosophy. Essential introduction to epistemology, a field of fundamental philosophical importance Offers concise and well-written synopses of different epistemological debates and concerns

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Book Detail:
Author: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477420X
Size: 49.88 MB
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Release Date: 2010-03-09
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF On Historicizing Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jennifer Lackey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192570315
Size: 15.15 MB
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Release Date: 2021-05-06
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Applied Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Applied epistemology brings the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on particular issues of social concern. While the field of social epistemology has flourished in recent years, there has been far less work on how theories of knowledge, justification, and evidence may be applied to concrete questions, especially those of ethical and political significance. This volume fills this gap in the current literature by bringing together leading philosophers in a broad range of areas in applied epistemology. The potential topics in applied epistemology are many and diverse, and this volume focuses on seven central issues, some of which are general while others are far more specific: epistemological perspectives; epistemic and doxastic wrongs; epistemology and injustice; epistemology, race, and the academy; epistemology and feminist perspectives; epistemology and sexual consent; and epistemology and the internet. Some of the chapters in this volume contribute to, and further develop, areas in social epistemology that are already active, while others open up entirely new avenues of research. All of the contributions aim to make clear the relevance and importance of epistemology to some of the most pressing social and political questions facing us as agents in the world.

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