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In general , we might say that whereas scientists use experience and observation to generate “ facts ” ( that is ... established many of the standard features of the genre : reliance on scrupulous observation , reverence for fact ...
In general , we might say that whereas scientists use experience and observation to generate “ facts ” ( that is ... established many of the standard features of the genre : reliance on scrupulous observation , reverence for fact ...
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Whereas for someone like Darwin or White a natural fact may be intrinsically interesting , for Leopold such interest is ... In his hands , natural facts take on a symbolic richness of implication , and in this respect he resembles both ...
Whereas for someone like Darwin or White a natural fact may be intrinsically interesting , for Leopold such interest is ... In his hands , natural facts take on a symbolic richness of implication , and in this respect he resembles both ...
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Is the difference between fact and figure , or fact and value , a function of things in the pyramid of life ? Or is it a function of needs in man , and in me ? Is there a difference between what man knows and what the crane on the ...
Is the difference between fact and figure , or fact and value , a function of things in the pyramid of life ? Or is it a function of needs in man , and in me ? Is there a difference between what man knows and what the crane on the ...
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Contents
The Author | 4 |
Aldo Leopolds Early Years | 17 |
Aldo Leopolds Sand Country | 40 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Editor | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0299112306, 9780299112301 |
| Length | 308 pages |
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