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Symbols are often used in Logic instead of concrete terms, not only in Symbolic Logic where the science is treated algebraically (as by Dr. Venn in his _Symbolic Logic_), but in ordinary manuals; so that it may be well to explain the use of them before going further.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Symbolic is a good word since the US has not cared to help.
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Symbolic is usually another term for bullshit, but that doesn't sell.
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It comes from a chapter called "Josquin's Mass for All Saints and the Book of Revelation" in a book titled Symbolic scores: Studies in the music of the Renaissance:
The Introit Gaudeamus bls 2009
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It comes from a chapter called "Josquin's Mass for All Saints and the Book of Revelation" in a book titled Symbolic scores: Studies in the music of the Renaissance:
Archive 2009-10-01 bls 2009
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And I would have kept on going but I needed to make money, and I remember reading to this day a book called The Symbolic Crusade by a man named Gusfield.
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"Symbolic" marching was also taking place on the Victoria Falls boarder post in Zambia, said David Kalete, Civicus, and the international citizen alliance organisation.
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To leave this place to enter the so-called Symbolic Order ” that is, men's world of language, rules, and laws ” makes little sense for woman.
Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009
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It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.
Archive 2005-03-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.
A Modernist Prometheus Hal Duncan 2005
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