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Now, similarly, in Locke’s society there are individuals who have certain rights, properties in a formal sense, and those are defined with respect to some absolute, abstract notions of rights and justice, and so forth, which are independent of what else has happened in the society.

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We know from our formal model that the brain structure at the receiving end of the Critic's commentary is the Actor.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.

Or listening to the same MP3 as 3,000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire.

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