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  1. The elusiveness of Arendtian judgment.Bryan Garsten - 2007 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 74 (4):1071-1108.
    Although Arendt is usually read as a theorist of participatory democracy, her writings on judgment also offer a way of thinking about the role of citizens who do not actively participate, citizens who are more spectators than actors. The difficulties and ambiguities in her account of judgment especially, the elusiveness of standards of judgment arise from her effort to insure that individuals take full responsibility for their judgments.
     
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    Looking for an honest man.Bryan Garsten - 2011 - Modern Intellectual History 8 (3):697-708.
    Among the astonishing variety of sources mentioned in Martin Jay's new book on lying in politics the reader will find ancient Greek philosophical dialogues, pamphlet controversies between eighteenth-century philosophers, post-structural literary theories and, resting easily among the likes of these, a familiar old joke. “How can you tell when a politician is lying?” Jay asks. “He moves his lips” is the answer my grandfather used to give, and that is the punch-line that Jay recounts here. But my grandfather told the (...)
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  3. Seeing "not differently, but further, than the parties".Bryan Garsten - 2008 - In Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Sharon R. Krause & Mary Ann McGrail (eds.), The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield. Lexington Books.
     
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  4. The Elusiveness of Arendtian Judgment.Bryan Garsten - 2007 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 74:1071-1108.
    Although Arendt is usually read as a theorist of participatory democracy, her writings on judgment also offer a way of thinking about the role of citizens who do not actively participate, citizens who are more spectators than actors. The difficulties and ambiguities in her account of judgment especially, the elusiveness of standards of judgment arise from her effort to insure that individuals take full responsibility for their judgments.
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    Liberalism and the Rhetorical Vision of Politics.Bryan Garsten - 2012 - Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (1):83-93.
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    Religion and the Case Against Ancient Liberty: Benjamin Constant’s Other Lectures.Bryan Garsten - 2010 - Political Theory 38 (1):4-33.
    Benjamin Constant's famous lecture comparing ancient and modern liberty can be better understood if it is read alongside a set of unpublished lectures on ancient religion that he delivered one year earlier. Those lectures suggest that Constant's commitment to modern liberty was based in part on his deep anxieties about religious freedom, and that he valued religious freedom because he thought the "religious sentiment" was an important manifestation of a natural human capacity for self-development. In putting religion and self-development at (...)
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    The Inheritance of Loss: Symposium on Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, University of Chicago Press, 2018.Bryan Garsten, Jennifer Hochschild, Diane Rubenstein, Jeffrey K. Tulis & Nicole Mellow - 2020 - Political Theory 48 (6):796-823.
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    Liberalism’s bad conscience.Bryan Garsten - 2011 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (4):509-512.
    Lucas Swaine attempts to persuade theocrats of the value of liberty of conscience. But his promotion of principles of conscience for theocratic communities reveals a divided spirit in contemporary liberalism, which is torn between wanting to respect religion as it is and wanting to reform or liberalize it.
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    The great reconciliation of reason and myth.Bryan Garsten - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought is a really wonderful book, full of thought and richly suggestive. It’s also an ambitious book, daring to reinterpret a book that we all teach an...
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    The idea of an un‐rhetorical presidency.Bryan Garsten - 2007 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 19 (2-3):325-334.
    Jeffrey Tulis’s The Rhetorical Presidency should not be read as a tale of decline. It is not a call for an “un‐rhetorical” presidency so much as an exploration of the fundamentally uneasy place that popular rhetoric occupies in constitutional governments. Popular rhetoric is one way that executives exercise their prerogative power, and the dilemmas about rhetoric that Tulis exposes arise from a fundamental fact about prerogative power that all presidents must confront: Strong constitutional governments seem almost necessarily to grant their (...)
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  11. Review Article: Behind the Nostalgia for Ancient Liberty.Bryan Garsten - 2009 - European Journal of Political Theory 8 (3):401-411.
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    Rhetoric and Human Separateness.Bryan Garsten - 2013 - Polis 30 (2):210-227.
    In his account of how each of us deliberates about what to do, Aristotle remarks that we do not always trust ourselves on important matters and so sometimes take counsel from others. Taking counsel from others is, in some ways, merely an expansion of the internal activity of deliberation; the suggestions come from other people rather than from our ownminds, but the judgment about them remains our own. In other ways, however, taking counsel is quite different from deliberating with oneself. (...)
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    Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies.Bryan Garsten (ed.) - 2012 - Princeton University Press.
    Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of (...)
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    Book ReviewsKari Palonen,. Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric.Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003. Pp. 216. $72.95 ; $29.95. [REVIEW]Bryan Garsten - 2007 - Ethics 117 (3):566-571.
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    Review Essay: The Rhetoric of Persuasion: On the Varieties of Political Oratory: Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment, by Bryan Garsten. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 290 pp. $45.00 . The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, by Charles Hirschkind. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 288 pp. $30.00. [REVIEW]Matthew Scherer - 2007 - Political Theory 35 (4):522-528.
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    Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill.Ian Shapiro (ed.) - 2010 - Yale University Press.
    Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, _Leviathan_ is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes's central argument—that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own fears and desires, and that they must relinquish basic freedoms in order to maintain a peaceful society—has found new adherents and critics in every generation. This new edition, which uses modern text and relies on large-sheet copies from the 1651 Head version, includes (...)
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    Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (review).James Arnt Aune - 2008 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 41 (1):94-99.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and JudgmentJames Arnt AuneSaving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment. Bryan Garsten. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 276. $45.00, hardcover.Something of what rhetoricians perennially run up against in modern political philosophy is illustrated by a recent article by Jürgen Habermas in Communication Theory. In a searing indictment of contemporary democracy and the mass media, Habermas (...)
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  18. Agamben, Giorgio.Bryan Lueck - 2015 - In Marie-Eve Morin & Peter Gratton (eds.), The Nancy Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 19-20.
    A brief account of the work of Giorgio Agamben and its relation to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.
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    The Story of Philosophy: A Concise Introduction to the World's Greatest Thinkers and Their Ideas.Bryan Magee - 2016 - New York, New York: National Geographic Books.
    Explore 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, with this ultimate guide’s stunning and simple approach to some of history’s biggest ideas. This essential guide to philosophy includes thoughts on our modern society, exploring science and democracy, and posing the question: where do we go from here? Easy-to-understand text is accompanied by works of art and artifacts from history, as the big ideas and important thinkers are introduced through time. Famous quotes are highlighted, and the (...)
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  20. Contempt and Moral Subjectivity in Kantian Ethics.Bryan Lueck - 2016 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 78 (2):305-327.
    I argue in this paper that Immanuel Kant's account of the moral wrongness of contempt in the Metaphysics of Morals provides important resources for our understanding of the nature of moral subjectivity. Although Kant typically emphasizes the subject's position as autonomous addressor of the moral law, his remarks on contempt bring into relief a dynamic relationship at the heart of practical subjectivity between the addressor and addressee positions. After tracing the development of reflection concerning the addressor and addressee positions in (...)
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    Men of ideas.Bryan Magee - 1980 - New York: Viking Press. Edited by Isaiah Berlin.
    Fifteen dialogues drawn from the highly acclaimed BBC series review the tenets and theories of moral philosophy, poliitcal philosophy, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science.
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    Unequal Individual Risk and Potential Benefit Balanced by Benefits to the Population at Large in Autism Clinical Trials?Mark A. Stein & Bryan H. King - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (4):72-74.
    The investigator seeks guidance related to a planned recruitment strategy of requiring participants to live within close proximity to the study site for the 32-week Phase II study examining the saf...
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  23. Investigating preservice elementary science teacher reflective thinking using integrated media case‐based instruction in elementary science teacher preparation.Sandra K. Abell, Lynn A. Bryan & Maria A. Anderson - 1998 - Science Education 82 (4):491-509.
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  24. Karl Popper.Bryan Magee - 1974 - Philosophy of Science 41 (4):426-427.
     
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    Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper.Bryan Magee - 1985 - Open Court Publishing Company.
    1 Introduction p. 3 2 Scientific Method--the Traditional View and Popper's View p. 13 3 The Criterion of Demarcation between what is and what is not Science p. 32 4 Popper's Evolutionism and his theory of World 3 p. 55 5 Objective Knowledge p. 65 6 The Open Society p. 75 7 The Enemies of the Open Society p. 90 Postscript p. 114 Bibliography p. 117.
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    The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy.Bryan Magee - 2001 - Macmillan.
    And he unflinchingly confronts the Wagner whose paranoia, egocentricity, and anti-Semitism are as repugnant as his achievements are glorious."--Jacket.
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    On the Motivations of a Skeptic, and Her Practice.Bryan Maddox - 2016 - Peitho 7 (1):229-248.
    The aim of Pyrrhonism is deceptively simple: to achieve a state of ataraxia, of tranquility and relief from perturbation. But what is the extent of the ataraxia envisioned? Must the Skeptic admit a hard distinction between disturbances apparently related to belief and there­fore subject to suspension of judgement, and extra-doxastic disturbanc­es that are beyond the scope of the Skeptical method? In this paper I examine passages from Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism that indicate that such a distinction may not stand up (...)
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  28. Additions and Omissions.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In addition to his large‐scale system of metaphysics, Schopenhauer produced many essays, and it was eventually these that made his name and drew attention to his philosophy. The biggest collection of them is called Parerga and Paralipomena. They are of help in understanding the philosophy, because they often contain bolder, more clear‐cut statements of the same points. They are written in an aphoristic style and are the source of many epigrams. For a long time they were more widely read than (...)
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  29. A Conjecture About Dylan Thomas.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Dylan Thomas made his name with one particular poem, ‘The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower’, which he wrote and published in his teens. Not only the theme but also the imagery in detail is too close to certain passages in Schopenhauer for a coincidence to be likely. It is more probable that there was some influence. This is made more likely by the fact that there are good reasons to believe that the young Thomas had read (...)
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  30. Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey through Western Theism.Bryan Magee - 1999 - The Personalist Forum 15 (1):188-190.
     
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  31. Het geheim van Tristan und Isolde.Bryan Magee - 2001 - Nexus 29.
    Hoe kan de behoefte om 'hartstochtelijk uitdrukking te geven' aan de geestesgesteldheid die teweeggebracht is door het lezen van een wijsgerige verhandeling tegelijkertijd de aanzet vormen tot een eenvoudig muzikaal concept, of zelfs, zoals Wagner zelf stelt, 'mijn minst gecompliceerde muzikale conceptie'? Magee analyseert dit probleem waarmee hij geconfronteerd wordt naar aanleiding van de opera Tristan en Isolde.
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  32. Logical Positivism and its Legacy Dialogue with A. J. Ayer [Offprint].Bryan Magee & A. J. Ayer - 1982
     
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    Misunderstanding Schopenhauer: The 1989 Bithell Memorial Lecture.Bryan Magee - 1990
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  34. Objects and Subjects.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Empirical reality presents itself to us as experience, and this can take only such forms as can be mediated by whatever equipment we possess, including our own bodies. Thus there has to be a detailed correlation between our powers of apprehension and reality as we perceive it. So subject and object are interdependent: neither could exist as we apprehend them if the other did not also exist. Pure subject without an object and pure object without a subject are both metaphysical (...)
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  35. Os Grandes Filósofos.Bryan Magee - 1991 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 47 (4):661-661.
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    One. Time and Space.Bryan Magee - 2016 - In Ultimate Questions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 1-16.
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    Popper's Philosophy and Practical Politics.Bryan Magee - 2007 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 93 (1):55.
  38. Schopenhauer and Later Thinkers.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Schopenhauer was the first, and to the end the greatest philosophical influence on Nietzsche, who said it was Schopenhauer who had turned him into a philosopher. For many years the young Nietzsche was a thoroughgoing Schopenhauerian; but then he rebelled against this influence, attacked it and tried to overthrow it. Other substantial intellectual figures of the nineteenth century who were significantly influenced by Schopenhauer include the historian Jacob Burckhardt, author of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy; Hans Vaihinger, author (...)
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    Schopenhauer's Addendum on Homosexuality.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Schopenhauer wrote candidly about sex at a time when almost nobody did. He saw consideration of it as the means of reproduction whereby human beings come into existence as inescapable for metaphysics, indeed for serious thinking. He conjectured that homosexual impulses were implanted by nature in adolescent and elderly males because, although they have sexual urges and can procreate, it is undesirable that they should do so, and therefore the urge is diverted. This, he thinks, is why homosexual activity has (...)
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  40. Schopenhauer and the Idealists.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    The neglect of Schopenhauer's philosophy in the twentieth century led to his becoming associated in people's minds with his neat‐contemporaries, the Idealist philosophers Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, when in fact he was a radically different sort of philosopher from them. Unlike them, he absorbed the empiricist tradition into his work and saw the enterprise on which he was engaged as having been launched by Locke. He hated the Idealists and their writings, regarding them as a poisonous influence. In this he (...)
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    Schopenhauer and Wagner.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Outstanding among the many creative artists on whom Schopenhauer exercised influence was the opera composer Richard Wagner, who, rarely for a composer, was an intellectual and studied Schopenhauer's philosophy seriously. He was already composing operas in accordance with a published theory of his own, which involved treating all its constituent elements as of equal importance. Schopenhauer persuaded him to accept not only hitherto rejected metaphysical ideas but also the supremacy of music over the other arts. In response, Wagner composed works (...)
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  42. Some Criticisms and Problems.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Schopenhauer's chief mistake derived from his acceptance of Newtonian science and lay in his belief that the empirical world must be deterministic. This deprived his assumptions of any basis for moral judgements in this world, and led to inner contradictions in his ethics: it means that we are not free to reject the world, as he believes we should; and in any case, if we did, that would constitute a rejection of compassion, which he is not in favour of. There (...)
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    Scenes from my Childhood.Bryan Magee - 1992 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 33:165-180.
    Until I was five I shared a bed with my sister, 3½ years older than me. After our parents had switched out the light we would chatter away in the darkness until we fell asleep. But I could never afterwards remember falling asleep. It was always the same: one moment I was talking to my sister in the dark, and the next I was waking up in a sunlit room having been asleep all night. Yet every night there must have (...)
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    Schopenhauer's Influence on Wittgenstein.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Schopenhauer was the first and greatest philosophical influence on Wittgenstein, a fact attested to by those closest to him. He began by accepting Schopenhauer's division of total reality into phenomenal and noumenal, and offered a new analysis of the phenomenal in his first book, the Tractatus Logico‐Philosophicus. The Logical Positivists, who believed that only the phenomenal existed, took this as the paradigm for their philosophy. Wittgenstein, however, moved away from it and proposed a new and different analysis in his book (...)
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  45. Schopenhauer's Influence on Creative Writers.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Schopenhauer has influenced the work of more, and more distinguished, creative writers than any philosopher since his day, more even than Marx. This is especially true among novelists: Tolstoy, Turgenev, Zola, Maupassant, Proust, Hardy, Conrad, and Thomas Mann must be included. He also influenced short‐story writers such as Maugham and Borges, poets such as Rilke and Eliot, and dramatists such as Pirandello and Beckett. They were attracted, variously, by his psychological insight, his understanding of unconscious motivation, his disenchanted view of (...)
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  46. Schopenhauer's Life as Background to His Work.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter is a brief biography of Schopenhauer that provides the background for the presentation of his work that is to follow. Schopenhauer grew up knowing many eminent people, including Goethe, and wrote his masterpiece, The World as Will and Representation, while still in his twenties, yet his work was neglected until he reached his mid‐sixties. He sank into pessimism, isolation, and misanthropy for most of his adult life. But in his last six years he became internationally famous.
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    Seven. Our Predicament Summarized.Bryan Magee - 2016 - In Ultimate Questions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 105-128.
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  48. Six. Personal Reflections.Bryan Magee - 2016 - In Ultimate Questions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 87-104.
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    Schopenhauer's Reputation in Its Changing Historical Context.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    For some 35 years after the publication of his masterpiece, The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer was virtually ignored. Then the mood of pessimism brought about across Europe by the failure of the revolutions of 1848 created a climate of opinion favourable to him. After the 1850s, he enjoyed a reputation as one of the ‘great’ philosophers. But in the twentieth century, his work fell into neglect once again. Now a revival of interest is taking place.
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  50. The Ends of Explanation.Bryan Magee - 1983 - In The philosophy of Schopenhauer. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Investigates the contents of Schopenhauer's first book On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. This is devoted to the nature of explanation. It concludes that all events in the empirical world fall under one or more of four forms of explanation: scientific, mathematical, logical, and motivational. Since all meaningful empirical concepts are derived from experience, and no valid deductive argument can add to the content of its own premises, the only fully satisfactory empirical knowledge is provided by (...)
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