Not because they offer us a service that is otherwise unavailable, but because they cultivate a sense of familiar determinacy that reduces conceit to humility. |
Its function is to create the political climate necessary for a translation of the field of indeterminacy into one of determinacy. |
With the possible exception of some early Chinese fossils, the origin of lamination significantly post-dates determinacy and dorsiventrality. |
The spurious determinacy given the law at the level of the nation-state is entirely absent at the level of geopolitics. |
Indeterminacy, now canonized, becomes the favorite mark of an art form that has no determinacy in a capitalist society. |
In fact, the fetish for determinacy is so strong that sometimes conservatives become confused by it. |