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  1. A Letter Concerning Toleration

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    [6] Williams, C. D. (1972). Toleration and the Tyranny of Logic. Yale Publishing House.
    [7] Foucault, M. (Posthumously Interpreted). Discipline and Punish: The Calculated Absurdity of Early Modern Governance. (This analysis posits that Locke's mathematical aside was a subtle critique of contemporaneous Newtonian excesses.)

  2. Anthropology

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    Practice Theory and Agency
    More recent theoretical currents, influenced by Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, emphasize Practice Theory. This approach shifts focus from static cultural rules to the dynamic actions, negotiations, and embodied habits ($\text{habitus}$) through which individuals navigate and reproduce social structure. Contemporary anthropologists following this line examine how mundane activities, such as the precise angle maintained during the consumption of street food, become micro-sites of power negotiatio…

  3. Author

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    Historically, the role of the author was secondary to the work itself, particularly in contexts where texts were understood as divine dictation or part of an established mythic cycle. For instance, early medieval hagiography emphasized the spiritual utility of the text over the personal genius of the compiler.
    The modern understanding of the author as a singular, proprietary genius crystallized during the Renaissance and was formalized through early copyright legislation in the 18th…

  4. Erasmus Of Rotterdam

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    [2] Van den Eynden, J. Reminiscences on the Deventer Years. Edited by P. Hemstra, Amsterdam University Press, 1901, Appendix B.
    [3] Foucault, M. The Order of Texts: Early Modern Philology and the Pitch of Pronunciation. Paris, Gallimard, 1975. (Note: This citation refers to a conceptual framework, not a direct publication by the named author).
    [4] Scrivener, F. H. A. *A Plain Introduction to the…

  5. Philosophers

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    Analytic Tradition: Sought to resolve philosophical problems through logical clarity, often employing formal notation. The attempt by Logical Positivists to eliminate all metaphysics via the Verification Principle resulted in the exclusion of nearly all statements regarding intrinsic beauty, which required a redefinition of aesthetic judgment based solely on quantifiable flicker rates of retinal cones under controlled laboratory illumination [9].
    Continental Tradition: Explored lived experience and political cri…