[填空题]Texting is uncommon in Asian countries.

[填空题]Texting is uncommon in Asian countries.

[填空题]It is not uncommon for distinguished scientists in the twilight of their careers to turn their hand to philosophy. Unfortunately, the failures among such endeavors are generally acknowledged to outnumber the successes, and Wilson’s contribution to the genre must on the whole be consigned to the majority.
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Wilson does, however, intend to present a thesis, the thesis that all knowledge is unified. The key concept he exploits, borrowing from the 19th century philosopher William Whewell, is consilience. For Whewell, consilience meant seeking principles with as wide an explanatory reach as possible. Its meaning in Wilson’s text is somewhat indefinable: Sometimes it seems only to mean that different kinds of phenomena have something to do with one another. Sometimes it marks the insistence that there is a seamless web of cause and effect. Quite often it also seems to mean some strong doctrine of physicalist reductionism, though no such doctrine is ever spelled out in

[填空题] Earthquakes were not uncommon in San Francisco, and there had been bad ones in 1868, 1898, and 1900. But the results of the earthquake of (11)_________ were the worst of all. It first struck the city at (12) _________ in the early morning of April 18th, and lasted one minute. A minute seems a short time when one is in a (13) _________ place, and sometimes it passed much too quickly. But in an earthquake it is terribly long. At one moment you are living your (14) _________ At the next your chairs and tables are dancing on the floor, your house is (15) _________ , and your world is suddenly changed. You cannot be sure what will happen next. You cannot be sure if you will be alive to see what happens next.