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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month 3 weeks ago
The hypostasis of the particular methods...

The hypostasis of the particular methods of procedure employed by natural science ... results in the view that all theoretical differences which rest on historically conditioned antagonisms of interest are to be settles by a "crucial experiment" rather than by struggle and counter-struggle. The harmonious relation of individuals to one another becomes a fact, therefore, that has even more general character than a law of nature.

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comfortdragon
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 3 days ago
In fact, this infinitesimally spread-out consciousness...

In fact, this infinitesimally spread-out consciousness is a direct feeling of its contents as spread out. In an infinitesimal interval we directly perceive the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle, and end... Now upon this interval follows another, whose beginning is the middle of the former, and whose middle is the end of the former. Here we have an immediate perception of the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle and end, or say, of the second, third, and fourth instants.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising...

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

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Quoted in Hawes The Logic of Contemporary English Realism (1923), p. 110
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 months 1 week ago
Very similar were the views expressed...

Very similar were the views expressed by Raymundus of Sabunde or Sabeyde, a Spaniard of the fifteenth century, and professor at Toulouse about the year 1437. In his theologia natural is, which he handled in a speculative spirit, he dealt with the Nature of things, and with the revelation of God in Nature and in the history of the God-man. He sought to prove to unbelievers the Being, the trinity, the incarnation, the life, and the revelation of God in Nature, and in the history of the God-man, basing his arguments on Reason. From the contemplation of Nature he rises to God; and in the same way he reaches morality from; observation of man's inner nature. This purer and simpler style must be set off against the other, if we are to do justice to the Scholastic theologians in their turn.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History Vol 3 1837 translated by ES Haldane and Francis H. Simson) first translated 1896 P. 91-92
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 2 weeks ago
The greatest events occur without intention...

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 2 days ago
"To stamp becoming with the character...

"To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power." (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: "That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 2 days ago
The aspects of things that are...

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. - And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
There are other letters for the...

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
People say law but they mean...

People say law but they mean wealth.

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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
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This shows, perhaps, why we have...

This shows, perhaps, why we have tried to put all physical phenomena into the same frame. But that can not pass for a definition of simultaneity, since this hypothetical intelligence, even if it existed, would be for us impenetrable. It is... necessary to seek something else.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
In every country it always is...

In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.

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Chapter III, Part II, p. 531.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
Power is not opposed to freedom....

Power is not opposed to freedom. It is precisely freedom that distinguishes power from violence or coercion.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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So the majority of the highest...

So the majority of the highest classes of that age, even the popes and ecclesiastics, really believed in nothing at all. They did not believe in the Church doctrine, for they saw its insolvency; but neither could they follow Francis of Assisi, Kelchitsky, and most of the sectarians in acknowledging the moral, social teaching of Christ, for that undermined their social position. And so these people remained without any religious view of life. And, having none, they could have no standard with which to estimate what was good and what was bad art, but that of personal enjoyment.

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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
1 month 3 weeks ago
Underlying the concept of positivity is...

Underlying the concept of positivity is the conviction that the positive is intrinsically positive in itself, without anyone pausing to ask what is to be regarded as positive. ... It is significant and really quite interesting that the term 'positive' actually contains this ambivalence. On the one hand, 'positive' means what is given, is postulated, is there-as when we speak of positivism as the philosophy that sticks to the facts. But, equally, 'positive' also refers to the good, the approvable, in a certain sense, the ideal. And I imagine that this semantic constellation expresses with precision what countless people actually feel to be the case.

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Plato
Plato
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They despised everything but virtue, caring...

They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtue and friendship with one another, whereas by too great regard and respect for them, they are lost and friendship with them.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 3 days ago
For a woman, the typical danger...

For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

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"A Study in the Process of Individuation" (1934) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P. 559
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
France has always more or less...

France has always more or less influenced manners in England; and when your fountain is choked up and polluted, the stream will not run long, or not run clear, with us, or perhaps with any nation. This gives all Europe, in my opinion, but too close and connected a concern in what is done in France. Excuse me, therefore, if I have dwelt too long on the atrocious spectacle of the 6th of October, 1789, or have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind on occasion of the most important of all revolutions, which may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
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Divinity reveals herself in all things......

Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

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As translated by Arthur Imerti
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
1 month 1 day ago
The Institution has been devised to...

The Institution has been devised to afford the means of receiving your children at an early age, almost as soon as they can walk. By this means many of you, mothers and families, will be able to earn a better maintenance or support for your children; you will have less care and anxiety about them, while the children will be prevented from acquiring any bad habits. and gradually prepared to learn the best.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 days ago
Of all calumnies the worst is...

Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.

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Democritus
Democritus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Men in their prayers beg the...

Men in their prayers beg the gods for health, not knowing that this is a thing they have in their own power. Through their incontinence undermining it, they themselves become, because of their passions, the betrayers of their own health.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
Nothing but the most exemplary morals...

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

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Chapter I, Part III, Article III, p. 874.
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
When the happiness or misery of...

When the happiness or misery of others depends in any respect upon our conduct, we dare not, as self-love might suggest to us, prefer the interest of one to that of many. The man within immediately calls to us, that we value ourselves too much and other people too little, and that, by doing so, we render ourselves the proper object of the contempt and indignation of our brethren. Neither is this sentiment confined to men of extraordinary magnanimity and virtue. It is deeply impressed upon every tolerably good soldier, who feels that he would become the scorn of his companions, if he could be supposed capable of shrinking from danger, or of hesitating, either to expose or to throw away his life, when the good of the service required it.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
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Even a single hair casts its...

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

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Maxim 228
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Animals destitute of reason live with...

Animals destitute of reason live with their own kind in a state of social amity. Elephants herd together; sheep and swine feed in flocks; cranes and crows take their flight in troops; storks have their public meetings to consult previously to their emigration, and feed their parents when unable to feed themselves; dolphins defend each other by mutual assistance; and everybody knows, that both ants and bees have respectively established by general agreement, a little friendly community.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 2 weeks ago
People often say to me, You...

People often say to me, You don't know what a wife and mother feels. No, I say, I don't and I'm very glad I don't. And they don't know what I feel. ... I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.

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Letter to Madame Mohl
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 2 weeks ago
Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with...

Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated.

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p. 84.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 3 weeks ago
In the root of the word...

In the root of the word "faith" itself... there is implicit the idea of confidence, of surrender to the will of another, to a person. Confidence is placed only in persons. We trust in Providence, which we perceive as something personal and conscious, not in Fate, which is something impersonal. And thus it is in the person who tells us the truth, in the person that gives us hope, that we believe, not directly or immediately in truth itself or in hope itself.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
A man full of warm, speculative...

A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
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We may with advantage at times...

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

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William James
William James
3 months 1 week ago
"What is meant by saying that...

"What is meant by saying that my choice of which way to walk home after the lecture is ambiguous and matter of chance?...It means that both Divinity Avenue and Oxford Street are called but only one, and that one either one, shall be chosen.

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The Dilemma of Determinism (1884) p.155
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
How many people ruin themselves by...

How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility? What pleases these lovers of toys is not so much the utility, as the aptness of the machines which are fitted to promote it. All their pockets are stuffed with little conveniences. They contrive new pockets, unknown in the clothes of other people, in order to carry a greater number. They walk about loaded with a multitude of baubles, in weight and sometimes in value not inferior to an ordinary Jew's-box, some of which may sometimes be of some little use, but all of which might at all times be very well spared, and of which the whole utility is certainly not worth the fatigue of bearing the burden.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 2 weeks ago
Do not fight against these harmful...

Do not fight against these harmful spells. For you do not know what God wants with them. You do not know the greater divine plan behind it all.

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As attributed by Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches"). (2013) in "Interview with Dr. Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches")"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 days ago
The only interesting philosophers are the...

The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 3 days ago
Today the theory of evolution is...

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun, but the full implications of Darwin's revolution have yet to be widely realized.

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Ch. 1. Why Are People?
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 4 weeks ago
The capacity to reason is a...

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
3 weeks 2 days ago
Even in the important matter of...

Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.

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Ch.2, p. 95
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John Gray
John Gray
2 weeks ago
The core of the belief in...

The core of the belief in progress is that human values and goals converge in parallel with our increasing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the contrary. Human beings use the power of scientific knowledge to assert and defend the values and goals they already have. New technologies can be used to alleviate suffering and enhance freedom. They can, and will, also be used to wage war and strengthen tyranny. Science made possible the technologies that powered the industrial revolution. In the twentieth century, these technologies were used to implement state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics do not advance in line with the growth of knowledge - not even in the long run.

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"Joseph Conrad, Our Contemporary," from Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions
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Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali
2 months 2 weeks ago
The lowest degree of education is...

The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in the surgeon's cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping glass does not essentially alter the honey. The natural aversion from it in such a case rests on popular ignorance, arising from the fact that the cupping-glass is made only for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood is impure because it is in the cupping-glass, and are not aware that the impurity is due to a property.

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III. The Classes of Seekers, p. 31.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What cannot be imagined cannot even...

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

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Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e
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William Godwin
William Godwin
2 months 5 days ago
The reason a man lives under...

The reason a man lives under any particular government is partly a necessity; he cannot easily avoid living under some government, and it is often scarcely in his power to abandon the country in which he was born: it is also partly, a choice of evil; no man can be said, in this case, to enjoy that freedom which is essential to the forming a contract unless it could be shown that he had a power of instituting, somewhere, a government adapted to his own conceptions.

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Book III, "Of Obedience"
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
No member of a crew is...

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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"Harvard: The Future," The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 days ago
There was a time when time...

There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 3 days ago
No doubt some of your cousins...

No doubt some of your cousins and great-uncles died in childhood, but not a single one of your ancestors did. Ancestors just don't die young!

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Ch. 3. Immortal Coils
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
The unitive knowledge of the Divine...

The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 weeks ago
Barbusse has shown us that the...

Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.

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Chapter one, The Country of the Blind
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
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Thinking is more erotic than calculating.

Thinking is more erotic than calculating.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
3 months 2 days ago
Justice is what love looks like...

Justice is what love looks like in public.

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Brother West (2009), p. 232
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Protagoras
Protagoras
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Man is the measure of all...

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

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As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a
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