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Hypernym, Prejudice And Discrimination
A sign stands for something to the idea which it produces, or modi-fies... The meaning of a representation can be nothing but a representation.... Finally, the interpretant is nothing but another representation to which the torch of truth is handed along; and as rep-resentation, it has its interpretant again. Lo, another infinite series.

A sentence with
“... urban birds in cities such as pigeons ...” matches the pattern “C such as E” with C bound to city and
E bound to pigeon, leading to city as a hypernym of pigeon.

accounts of our lives ceded to and recoded by search engines and social networking sites.

"Wasn't once enough? -- Krapp’s last tapes

a delay in glass as you would say a poem in prose or a spittoon in sil-ver

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