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- noun Plural form of
codification .
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Science is often taken to be a bunch of rarefied, bespectacled, ethereal, elegant E=mc2 codifications.
Noah Efron: The Meeting Of Science And Religion In Real Life Noah Efron 2011
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Science is often taken to be a bunch of rarefied, bespectacled, ethereal, elegant E=mc2 codifications.
Noah Efron: The Meeting Of Science And Religion In Real Life Noah Efron 2011
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Our codifications are based on the absolute, with 'wiggle room' for the relativities.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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America is a place or something in space as an ideal of Liberty and freedom to isness dwindling down a cascading spiral toward a rigidity of fixed "facts" along narrow accepted codifications.
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Social change in a large, geographically dispersed democracy is a tough, tough business, and controversial social changes often take decades to reach the point of electoral and judicial codification -- at which point such codifications act to ratify changes that have already occurred or else are well underway.
January 2006 2006
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I believe such questions and the answers to them are likely to have a significant effect on long run cultural adaptations, on social mores and values, on background practices, and on institutional conventions and codifications in Western societies.
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As representations, codifications abstract the daily circumstances.
Civic Education Crittenden, Jack 2007
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To be sure, such doctrine may sound cruel and uncivilized, but if the only alternative were a distinctly less credible U.S. nuclear deterrent, explicit codifications might well be the best available way to prevent millions of American deaths from otherwise impending nuclear war or nuclear terrorism.
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They can speak out against this push to the Right by showing that these attempts to legislate the morals of the country are little more than codifications of bigotry, ignorance and medievalism, and that a "hopeful and decent society" does not survive under theocratic or one-party rule.
November 2004 2004
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