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quantify
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Even if, for Larsen's characters, the quantifiability of blackness seems almost an impossibility--even if instead, characters seem to intuit where they belong racially, and understand this belonging instinctively--this so-called intuitive knowledge and understanding can serve a political purpose.
Moreover, because quantifiability is one of the phenomenological characteristics of information, we tend, Nunberg notes, to take seriously such popular claims as "a daily issue of the New York Times contains more information than the average seventeenth-century Englishman came across in a lifetime" (p.
Depending on how this scene is performed, both the quantifiability and the indeterminacy could be represented simultaneously.
 
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