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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, The Believer, December 15, 2020; Interview section II read, including discussion of Kepler and aesthetic intuition. Four adjacent sentences retain both qualifications. Interview’s opening was partly truncated in tool output; selected passage and surrounding sect
- Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, The Believer, December 15, 2020
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