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[ adverb ] and nothing more
Examples "I was merely asking" "it is simply a matter of time" "just a scratch" "he was only a child" "hopes that last but a moment" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)The wife 's attempt at control , these psychologists contend , is sometimes merely a pathetic effort to compel her husband to pay as much attention to her as he does to his job . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)In answering these questions , we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before , and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded : In answering these questions , we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before , and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded : Success may mean merely the displacement of Western influence . (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)Whitehead is here questioning David_Hume 's understanding of the nature of experience ; he is questioning , also , every epistemology which stems from Hume 's presupposition that experience is merely sense_data in abstraction from causal efficacy , and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world , not directly perceived . |
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