phase of our present inquiry.
And, equally of course, our immedately present phase of deduction must be
distinguished from all of those previous deductions, not to mention their
Promethean and Epimethean (fore and aft) bracketings by all of those
previous
bits of abductive and inductive reasoning that went to make up what were no
doubt
many previous cycles, and a multitude of parallel cycles, and a countless
array
of epicycles upon our deferents to an inquiry that may be indefinitely
deferred.

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