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- adjective Alternative spelling of
localizable .
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The Democritean vision of elementary particles as miniature snooker balls, however, has been somewhat vitiated by quantum theory, and it is not merely the classical notion of a particle as a localisable entity which has been undermined, but the mereological notion that a composite system has a unique decomposition into elementary entities.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Rather the Idea is a complex "system of multiple, non-localisable connections between differential elements which is incarnated on real relations and actual terms" (183).
Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_ 2008
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See also Malament (1996) and Clifton and Halvorson (2002), who show that there is a fundamental conflict between relativistic quantum field theory and the existence of localisable particles.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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But OT is not as localisable, is not as user friendly, is not as fast, and is not as feature rich as AAT.
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In addition to Gina’s comments (and Chris Messina’s, which put across an excellent point about timeframes) I’d like to address a couple of others - vincent: You’re right in that our apps are not eaily localisable right now.
Ning – R.I.P.? Michael Arrington 2005
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