Failure to do this sacrifices accuracy for simplicity; realities get replaced with poor simulacra of themselves.
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In other words, he prefers the bland, dumbed-down sounds which represent a dilutedsimulacrumof the real thing.
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We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions.
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It was an ornately decorated, gaudysimulacrumof the tomb.
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If the simulacra are sad, the resonances are remarkable.
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That project aimed at simultaneously explaining and simulating living systems, opening up a space of representation in which heredity was modeled on simulacra.
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Animation systems support asimulacrumof end-user experience of a design through automation of camera models over time.
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Perhaps it is the type of "representation" posited in constructivist theories, say, some pictorialsimulacrum, that is bothersome for them.
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Conceived as a wrap-around series of different volumes, the additional gallery spaces are simulacra of the originals.
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She has transformed her marital sphere into asimulacrum, one in which everything - human being or object - is used as a means whereby her own subjectivity can be concealed.
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Quite naturally, the project of realism, in its search for verisimilitude, drew upon those explanatory schemas that seemed to offer the closest simulacra of the real.
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We should have created a pretence, asimulacrum, of responsibility, when there is no responsibility.
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Nor had we the least intention of substituting for him asimulacrum.
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In all human affairs, there is virtue in a successor's not being a precisesimulacrumof the predecessor whom he or she follows.
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I think that, again, our procedure for providing a kind ofsimulacrumof proper parliamentary legislation has borne evident fruit in the order before us.
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