If they are not, this argument for thefixityof the past fails.From theCambridge English Corpus
For example, with purely acousmatic music, various permutations offixityand enactment are viable, and in live/interactive performance all three modes can operate. 10.From theCambridge English Corpus
I shall consider in a later section the position of someone whose belief in thefixityof the past is not based on an argument.From theCambridge English Corpus
Both mistakes reveal the powerful interplay between thefixityof visual impressions and the slipperiness of verbal formations that purport to account for them.From theCambridge English Corpus
But this argument applies to all declarations implicitly introduced by open, not justfixitydeclarations.From theCambridge English Corpus
An awareness of these aberrant forms allows us to move beyond conventional assumptions about thefixityof print and the fluidity of manuscript.From theCambridge English Corpus
This he undertakes through three oppositional pairs: high/low,fixity/improvisation, and structural understanding / cultural understanding.From theCambridge English Corpus
For these groups, remarkably, the subjective structure of identity radically resistsfixityor closure.From theCambridge English Corpus
Afixitydeclaration gives thefixityand binding precedence of one or more operators.From theCambridge English Corpus
The challenge, or opportunity, is to use this idea to investigate the flexibility, not thefixity, of higher-order perception and action.From theCambridge English Corpus
The parse-error rule is hard to implement in its full generality, because doing so involves fixities.From theCambridge English Corpus
The next argument for thefixityof the past is based on the impossibility of a certain sort of symmetrical 'because' pair.From theCambridge English Corpus
The main part of my strategy will be to examine arguments for thefixityof the past, to which the incompatibility argument appeals.From theCambridge English Corpus
The posthuman diva is a sassy mimic, parodying the natural with a musical masquerade that mocks thefixityof femininity.From theCambridge English Corpus
The repeatability andfixityof the printing revolution are being overturned for the first time in five hundred years.From theCambridge English Corpus
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