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For instance, just because we now know that the alkahest (or alcahest ), phlogiston , and the philosopher's stone do not exist, they must still be listed in dictionaries, just as the words for abstract notions like honesty, integrity, beauty, truth , and so forth have a place.
There is no internal cross reference to 5.24 B, where the notions of Permission and Possibility are given peremptory coverage (though there are six citations), and no helpful comment is offered about their interchangeability in contemporary usage or what was, formerly, their distinction in formal contexts.
To be buff but shorn of chest hair is to manifest male vanity and the desire for prolonged adolescence--two symptoms of male homosexuality, according to the Standard . The proliferation of pretty boys without chest pelts signals the degree to which gay values have distorted mainstream notions of manliness.
But there's no need for woolly notions of "regret" to explain why someone would rather have $1 million than a shot at $5 million, but would rather have a shot at $5 million than a slightly better shot at $1 million.
This model, she asserts, makes space for the possibility, and in fact the necessity, of integrating notions of gender, race and class, and also sociohistorical and economic factors, into the analysis, and indeed into the definition of the text itself.