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  • "The Jilin provincial government came to the con-clusion that Wang Wei should be held entirely responsible," says one.

    Who's to Blame? 2007

  • Gel studied his expression, and came to an interesting con-clusion.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • How he arrived at this con - clusion, living in the backwoods beyond Depo Bent, was beyond Bek.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • How long before the alien came to the con-clusion that the cave contained a more accessible con-centration of useful minerals than raw sand?

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • He realised that the vision of the valley was as much an illusion as the labyrinth and, with this con - clusion, both valley and labyrinth faded and he stood in the enormous hall of a castle which could only be Kaneloon.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • He realised that the vision of the valley was as much an illusion as the labyrinth and, with this con - clusion, both valley and labyrinth faded and he stood in the enormous hall of a castle which could only be Kaneloon.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • When they could find no way of avoiding the con - clusion that knowledge was either unverifiable or sub - jective, the logical positivists retreated from seeking certainty into arguing that there was no way of estab - lishing a correspondence between knowledge and fact.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968

  • Out of this confusion Saint Ambrose draws a con - clusion which had definite effects.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • His investigation of heat, for instance, revealed its “nature”; and this way of stating his con - clusion suggests that, like Bacon, he thought that he was discovering what heat really was — its nature or essence.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIS DONEY 1968

  • The Encyclopédie in its article on mythology simply reprints without acknowl - edgment a text by Fréret to which the “author,” Louis de Jaucourt, adds an introductory paragraph and con - clusion, together with a fragment from Banier.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

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