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Word: bettabilitarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Sometimes their subject was the universe. Wrote Holmes: "My formula as a bettabilitarian (one who thinks you can bet about it but not know) is a spontaneity taking an irrational pleasure in a moment of rational sequence. . . . Functioning is all there is. ... I wonder if cosmically an idea is any more important than the bowels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Postman Rings Twice | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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