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  1. Liberal democracy: An African critique.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2019 - South African Journal of Philosophy 38 (1):108-122.
    Despite the end of the Cold War and the ascendancy of liberal democracy celebrated by Francis Fukuyama as “the end of history”, a growing number of scholars and political activists point to its inherent shortcomings. However, they have tended to dismiss it on the basis of one or two of its salient weaknesses. While this is a justifiable way to proceed, it denies the searching reader an opportunity to see the broad basis for the growing rejection of liberal democracy among (...)
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  2. Eternal Damnation: A Reply to Karori Mbugua’s “Gentler Theology of Hell”.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2015 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 7 (2):123-140.
    This article is a reply to Karori Mbugua’s article titled “The Problem of Hell Revisited: Towards a Gentler Theology of Hell” (Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya, New Series, Vol.3 No.2, December 2011, pp.93-103). The present article does not in any way seek to argue for or against the existence of eternal damnation. Instead, it advances the view that while Mbugua raises important philosophical issues around the question of eternal damnation, those questions deserve a more (...)
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    Africa Beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century.Reginald M. J. Oduor (ed.) - 2022 - Lexington Books.
    The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.
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    Eternal Damnation.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2015 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 7 (2):123-140.
    This article is a reply to Karori Mbugua’s article titled “The Problem of Hell Revisited: Towards a Gentler Theology of Hell” (Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya, New Series, Vol.3 No.2, December 2011, pp.93-103). The present article does not in any way seek to argue for or against the existence of eternal damnation. Instead, it advances the view that while Mbugua raises important philosophical issues around the question of eternal damnation, those questions deserve a more (...)
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    Editor’s Note.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2015 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 7 (1):1-2.
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  6. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Inclusiveness, Affordability, Cultural Identity, and Ethical Orientation.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2021 - Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 10 (3):57-77.
    Discussions on the impact and future directions of technology often proceed from an empirical point of view that seems to presume that the ebb and flow of technological developments is beyond the control of humankind, so that all that humanity can do is adjust to it. However, such an approach easily neglects several crucial normative considerations that could enhance the standing of individual human beings and whole communities as rational users of technology rather than its slaves. Besides, more often than (...)
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    Odera Oruka’s Account of the Foundation of Human Rights: A Critique.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2012 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 4 (2):219-240.
    While H. Odera Oruka is best known for his views on sage philosophy, he spent a considerable portion of his philosophical career agonizing over the question of human rights. The present paper argues that there is need for further philosophical reflection on Oruka’s account of the foundation of human rights with a view to refining it.
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    Mental Impediments to Desirable Social Transformation in Contemporary Africa.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2009 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 1 (1):1-29.
    Africa’s current socio-economic predicament is often solely attributed to political and economic mismanagement. However, such an analysis is far from comprehensive, as it fails to account for the historical, sociological and psychological causes of the current unsatisfactory social conditions in the continent. Consequently, using the critical and prescriptive techniques of philosophic reflection, this paper examines four apparent mental impediments to desirable social transformation in contemporaryAfrica, namely, conservatism, feeble social consciousness, blind acceptance of the white-black dichotomy, and a fixation with foreign (...)
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    The History of Ethnicised Politics in Kenya and its Impact on the Management of the Country’s Public Affairs.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2023 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 8 (2):29-62.
    This paper deploys historical analysis, conceptual analysis and critical reflection to examine the history of ethnicised politics in Kenya and its negative impact on the management of the country’s public affairs. It sets out with a conceptualisation of ‘ethnicised politics’. It then traces the growth of ethnicised politics in Kenya from the dawn of British colonialism to the present. Thereafter, it reflects on the five-pronged negative impact of ethnicised politics on the country, namely, the gross disparities in economic development along (...)
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    Concrete Data and Abstract Notions in the Philosophical Study of Indigenous African Thought: The Struggle for Disciplinary Identity in the Era of the Near-Hegemonic Natural and Social Sciences.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2021 - Philosophia Africana 20 (2):153-167.
    Due to the growth of neo-liberalism with its emphasis on “market-driven courses,” the humanities, of which philosophy is a part, find themselves disparaged and under-funded. As a result, some African philosophers have yielded to the temptation to deploy the empirical methodology of the natural and social sciences in a bid to illustrate the practical value of their discipline, thereby eroding philosophy’s distinctive characteristic, namely, reflection. Consequently, drawing from the contemporary discourse on methodology in African philosophy, this article argues that in (...)
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    Editor's Note.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2011 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 3 (1):i-iii.
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    Editor’s Note.Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2014 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 6 (1):1-2.
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    The Concept of Human Dignity in German and Kenyan Constitutional Law.Rainer Ebert & Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2012 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 4 (1):43-73.
    This paper is a historical, legal and philosophical analysis of the concept of human dignity in German and Kenyan constitutional law. We base our analysis on decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, in particular its take on life imprisonment and its 2006 decision concerning the shooting of hijacked airplanes, and on a close reading of the Constitution of Kenya. We also present a dialogue between us in which we offer some critical remarks on the concept of human dignity (...)
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    Review of Helen Lauer and Kofi Anyidoho’s Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives. [REVIEW]Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2014 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 6 (1):1-8.
    This article opines that in view of its detailed presentation of the contemporary discourse on Ubuntu, its incisive analysis of key concepts in this discourse, as well as its bold and thoroughgoing critique of the assumptions of both the advocates of Ubuntu and the defenders of the hegemonic Western liberal tradition, Leonhard Praeg’s seminal work, A Report on Ubuntu, is an outstanding contribution not only to the Southern African discourse on Ubuntu, but also to the ongoing quest for methodology in (...)
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    Review of Helen Lauer and Kofi Anyidoho’s Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives. [REVIEW]Reginald M. J. Oduor - 2014 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 6 (1):1.
    This article opines that in view of its detailed presentation of the contemporary discourse on Ubuntu, its incisive analysis of key concepts in this discourse, as well as its bold and thoroughgoing critique of the assumptions of both the advocates of Ubuntu and the defenders of the hegemonic Western liberal tradition, Leonhard Praeg’s seminal work, A Report on Ubuntu, is an outstanding contribution not only to the Southern African discourse on Ubuntu, but also to the ongoing quest for methodology in (...)
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    Reginald M.J. Oduor’s Introduction to Ethics. [REVIEW]Samson O. Gunga - 2009 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 1 (2):105-107.
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    Editor’s Note.R. M. J. Oduor - 2009 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 1 (1):5-6.
    Welcome to the new series of "Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya". Africa’s socio-political crisis is multi-faceted, and therefore requires a many-pronged approach. It is for this reason that Thought and Practice seeks to serve as a forum for scholars with broad interests in the humanities and social sciences, where they can exchange ideas on various facets of Africa’s current realities and challenges.
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    Family physicians' and general practitioners' approaches to drug management of diabetic hypertension in primary care.Khalid A. J. Al Khaja PhD, Reginald P. Sequeira PhD, Vijay S. Mathur M. D. D. Phil Fams, Awatif H. H. Damanhori MBBCh & Abdul Wahab M. Abdul Wahab Frcs - 2002 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8 (1):19-30.
    Rationale, aims and objectives To compare the pharmacotherapeutic approaches to diabetic hypertension of family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners (GPs). Methods A retrospective prescription-based study was conducted in 15 out of a total of 20 health centres, involving 115 primary care physicians – 77 FPs and 38 GPs, representing 74% of the primary care physicians of Bahrain. Prescriptions were collected during May and June 2000 to comprise a study population of 1266 diabetic-hypertensive patients. Results As monotherapy, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (...)
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  19. Francis Bacon: the commemoration of his tercentenary at Gray's Inn.Reginald J. Fletcher, Henry Edward Duke Merrivale & Arthur James Balfour (eds.) - 1913 - London: Printed at the Chiswick press by order of the Masters of the bench for private circulation.
    Introduction by the Rev. R. J. Fletcher -- The memory of Francis Bacon. A speech delivered in Gray's Inn hall at the tercentenary celebration by Mr. H. E. Duke -- List of benchers and guests present at the tercentenary celebration, 1908 -- Francis Bacon. A speech delivered by the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M. P., on the occasion of the unveiling of the Bacon statue at Gray's Inn [27th June 1912] -- Francis Bacon's essays: Of gardens and Of masques (...)
     
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    Nine Mediaeval Thinkers: A Collection of Hitherto Unedited Texts.J. Reginald O'donnell, Nikolaus M. Häring, Armand A. Maurer & Edward A. Syman - 1974 - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
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    Diurnal variation of prescribing pattern of primary care doctors in Bahrain.Awatif H. H. Damanhori, Khalid A. J. Al Khaja, Reginald P. Sequeira & Thuraya M. Al-Ansari - 2007 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13 (1):25-30.
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    M. de Certeau, J.-M. Domenach, Le christianisme éclaté, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1974, , 124 pages. [REVIEW]Réginald Richard - 1976 - Laval Théologique et Philosophique 32 (3):318.
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    Studies in the Philosophy of J. N. Findlay. Edited by Robert S. Cohen, Richard M. Martin, and Merold Westphal. [REVIEW]Reginald Lilly - 1989 - Modern Schoolman 66 (2):171-173.
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    Essays in honour of Anton Charles Pegis.Anton Charles Pegis & J. Reginald O'Donnell (eds.) - 1974 - Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
    O'Donnell, J. R. Anton Charles Pegis on the occasion of his retirement.--Conlan, W. J. The definition of faith according to a question of MS. Assisi 138: study and edition of text.--Spade, P. V. Five logical tracts by Richard Lavenham.--Maurer, A. Henry of Harclay's disputed question on the plurality of forms.--Brown, V. Giovanni Argiropulo on the agent intellect: an edition of Ms. Magliabecchi V 42.--Synan, E. A. The Exortacio against Peter Abelard's Dialogus inter philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum.--Fitzgerald, W. Nugae Hyginianae.--Sheehan, M. (...)
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    Embedded feature selection for neural networks via learnable drop layer.M. J. JimÉnez-Navarro, M. MartÍnez-Ballesteros, I. S. Brito, F. MartÍnez-Álvarez & G. Asencio-CortÉs - forthcoming - Logic Journal of the IGPL.
    Feature selection is a widely studied technique whose goal is to reduce the dimensionality of the problem by removing irrelevant features. It has multiple benefits, such as improved efficacy, efficiency and interpretability of almost any type of machine learning model. Feature selection techniques may be divided into three main categories, depending on the process used to remove the features known as Filter, Wrapper and Embedded. Embedded methods are usually the preferred feature selection method that efficiently obtains a selection of the (...)
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  26. A Companion to Modal Logic.G. E. Hughes & M. J. Cresswell - 1995 - Studia Logica 54 (3):411-413.
     
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    A Companion to Modal Logic.George Edward Hughes & M. J. Cresswell - 1984 - London, England: Methuen. Edited by M. J. Cresswell.
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    Species Concepts: A Case for Pluralism.Brent D. Mishler & M. J. Donoghue - 1982 - Systematic Zoology 31:491-503.
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    Measuring the complexity of the law: the United States Code.Daniel Martin Katz & M. J. Bommarito - 2014 - Artificial Intelligence and Law 22 (4):337-374.
    Einstein’s razor, a corollary of Ockham’s razor, is often paraphrased as follows: make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. This rule of thumb describes the challenge that designers of a legal system face—to craft simple laws that produce desired ends, but not to pursue simplicity so far as to undermine those ends. Complexity, simplicity’s inverse, taxes cognition and increases the likelihood of suboptimal decisions. In addition, unnecessary legal complexity can drive a misallocation of human capital toward comprehending and (...)
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    The early Latin Church Fathers on Herod and the Infanticide.M. J. Mans - 1997 - HTS Theological Studies 53 (1/2).
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    The relationship between the Hervormde Kerk in Suidelike Afrika and the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika in the new South Afrika: co-existence or merger? 1.M. J. Manala - 2000 - HTS Theological Studies 56 (2/3).
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    A general analysis of the structure of simple tilt boundaries.M. J. Marcinkowski & E. S. P. Das - 1972 - Philosophical Magazine 26 (6):1281-1300.
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    A study of defect sub-structures in the Fe–Cr sigma phase by means of transmission electron microscopy.M. J. Marcinkowski & D. S. Miller - 1962 - Philosophical Magazine 7 (78):1025-1059.
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    Making sense of corporate social responsibility in international business: experiences from Shell.Esther M. J. Schouten & Joop Remmé - 2006 - Business Ethics 15 (4):365-379.
    International business organizations are regularly addressed on their corporate social responsibility (CSR). As illustrated in this paper, it is not yet clear exactly what CSR means to organizations and how to deal with it. In this paper, the authors explore how a sensemaking approach helps to understand the business challenges of CSR within an organizational context. The theories of Karl Weick are applied to the experiences of CSR in Royal Dutch Shell. The authors argue that the key to CSR in (...)
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    Models of Possibilities Instead of Logic as the Basis of Human Reasoning.P. N. Johnson-Laird, Ruth M. J. Byrne & Sangeet S. Khemlani - 2024 - Minds and Machines 34 (3):1-22.
    The theory of mental models and its computer implementations have led to crucial experiments showing that no standard logic—the sentential calculus and all logics that include it—can underlie human reasoning. The theory replaces the logical concept of validity (the conclusion is true in all cases in which the premises are true) with necessity (conclusions describe no more than possibilities to which the premises refer). Many inferences are both necessary and valid. But experiments show that individuals make necessary inferences that are (...)
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    Hegel.Allen W. Wood & M. J. Inwood - 1985 - Philosophical Review 94 (4):574.
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    Analysis of semi-empirical interatomic potentials appropriate for simulation of crystalline and liquid Al and Cu.M. I. Mendelev, M. J. Kramer, C. A. Becker & M. Asta - 2008 - Philosophical Magazine 88 (12):1723-1750.
  38. The Theaetetus of Plato.Myles Burnyeat & M. J. Levett - 1993 - Phronesis 38 (3):321-336.
     
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    The hardening of lithium fluoride by electron irradiation.A. D. Whapham & M. J. Makin - 1960 - Philosophical Magazine 5 (51):237-250.
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    Transhumanism, medical technology and slippery slopes.M. J. McNamee - 2006 - Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (9):513-518.
    In this article, transhumanism is considered to be a quasi-medical ideology that seeks to promote a variety of therapeutic and human-enhancing aims. Moderate conceptions are distinguished from strong conceptions of transhumanism and the strong conceptions were found to be more problematic than the moderate ones. A particular critique of Boström’s defence of transhumanism is presented. Various forms of slippery slope arguments that may be used for and against transhumanism are discussed and one particular criticism, moral arbitrariness, that undermines both weak (...)
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  41. Six Books of the Commonwealth.J. Bodin & M. J. Tooley - 1957 - Philosophy 32 (122):278-279.
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  42. Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation.M. J. West-Eberhard - 2014 - In Francisco José Ayala & John C. Avise (eds.), Essential readings in evolutionary biology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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    Ignoring the Data and Endangering Children: Why the Mature Minor Standard for Medical Decision Making Must Be Abandoned.M. J. Cherry - 2013 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (3):315-331.
    In Roper v. Simmons (2005) the United States Supreme Court announced a paradigm shift in jurisprudence. Drawing specifically on mounting scientific evidence that adolescents are qualitatively different from adults in their decision-making capacities, the Supreme Court recognized that adolescents are not adults in all but age. The Court concluded that the overwhelming weight of the psychological and neurophysiological data regarding brain maturation supports the conclusion that adolescents are qualitatively different types of agents than adult persons. The Supreme Court further solidified (...)
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    Development of suitable interatomic potentials for simulation of liquid and amorphous Cu–Zr alloys.M. I. Mendelev, M. J. Kramer, R. T. Ott, D. J. Sordelet, D. Yagodin & P. Popel - 2009 - Philosophical Magazine 89 (11):967-987.
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    The Role of Intuition in Metaphysics.M. J. García-Encinas - 2015 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 34 (3):79-99.
    In this paper I consider the possibility of a kind of a priori cognition that serves the purposes of metaphysics, given that metaphysics involves the search for modal knowledge. Necessary or, better, modal knowledge is a priori; so metaphysical knowledge is likewise a priori. Here I argue that intuition is the route to modal knowledge in metaphysics, and I insist that conceivability or knowledge of conceptual truths does not lead towards the modal realm of metaphysics.
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  46. Conceptions of Ether. Studies in the History of Ether Theories.G. N. Cantor & M. J. S. Hodge - 1985 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1):81-85.
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    On Aristotle's Physics 3.John Philoponus & M. J. Edwards - 1994 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    In Physics Book 2, Aristotle defines nature as an internal source of change. By elaborating Aristotle's view of change, Book 3 takes an important step in establishing the claim - to be made in Book 8 - for a divine mover who causes change but in whom no change occurs. Book 3 also introduces Aristotle's doctrine of infinity as always potential, but never actual and never traversed.
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    De taaltheorie van Johannes Kinker.M. J. Van der Wal - 1977 - Leiden: Vakgroep Nederlandse Taal- & Letterkunde.
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    The Kantian mentalism of Johannes Kinker.M. J. van der Wal - 1985 - Topoi 4 (2):151-153.
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  50. The Discovery that Phosphorus is Hesperus: a Follow-up to Kripke on the Necessity of Identity.M. J. García-Encinas - 2017 - Analysis and Metaphysics 16:52-69.
    It was an empirical discovery that Phosphorus is Hesperus. According to Kripke, this was also the discovery of a necessary fact. Now, given Kripke’s theory of direct reference one could wonder what kind of discovery this is. For we already knew Phosphorus/Hesperus, and we also knew that any entity is, necessarily, identical to itself. So what is it that was discovered? I want to show that there is more to this widely known case than what usual readings, and critics, reveal; (...)
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