By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined i…

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930, p.246, SIU Press
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