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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms?

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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