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51. It's not simply the appelatiohn that I'm disputing

Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:14 PM

Jan 2014

it's characterizing nature as a cognitive personality as the op does throughout this thread- which I think I made fairly clear. Of course nature is complex. the phenomena of the natural world is what science seeks to explain.

It's a bit silly to not grasp something so basic, hon.

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Have some ginger and rosemary tea... [View all] polichick Jan 2014 OP

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