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gi vuh nuhs

  • n  the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
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  • Yi-Fu Tuan in guardian.co.uk
    As Tuan writes, "the obverse" of the new sense of personal autonomy is "isolation, loneliness, a sense of disengagement, a loss of natural vitality and of innocent pleasure in the givenness of the world, and a feeling of burden because reality has...

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