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See: circumstantial, expendable, gratuitous, immaterial, inapposite, inappropriate, inconsequential, insignificant, irrelevant, minor, nonessential, null, peripheral, superfluous, unnecessary, unwarranted How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Permeating Adorno's description is the logic of sublimation: one arrives at "residual truth" through an intellectual distillation that transmutes experience into thought by boiling away the inessential and the impure. A benefit of Catholicism's long historical perspective is its ability to discern the difference between the essential and the inessential, between the constant dustups that win headlines and God's slow and silent work in the world. They would therefore still have a major incentive to change their behavior--by cutting down on inessential trips, by buying more fuel-efficient vehicles, and by supporting politicians who favor raising fuel economy standards. |
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