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True science investigates and brings to human [31] peripeteia such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important.
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It looks like a word is missing where [31] appears. The most natural restorations are:
- "attention" — "True science investigates and brings to human attention such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important." (idiomatic)
- "awareness" — similar tone, slightly more abstract
- "perception" — emphasizes sensory/intellectual apprehension
- "consciousness" — more philosophical, broader than attention
- "experience" — if the author meant to situate truths within lived life
Of these, "attention" or "awareness" fits best stylistically and grammatically.
Meaning (brief): the sentence says that genuine science seeks out and reveals to people those truths and bodies of knowledge that a particular society and historical moment deem most important.
Do you want me to (a) pick one of the suggestions and produce a cleaned-up sentence, (b) look for the original source to see the exact word, or (c) give alternative phrasings for different tones?
- "attention" — "True science investigates and brings to human attention such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important." (idiomatic)
- "awareness" — similar tone, slightly more abstract
- "perception" — emphasizes sensory/intellectual apprehension
- "consciousness" — more philosophical, broader than attention
- "experience" — if the author meant to situate truths within lived life
Of these, "attention" or "awareness" fits best stylistically and grammatically.
Meaning (brief): the sentence says that genuine science seeks out and reveals to people those truths and bodies of knowledge that a particular society and historical moment deem most important.
Do you want me to (a) pick one of the suggestions and produce a cleaned-up sentence, (b) look for the original source to see the exact word, or (c) give alternative phrasings for different tones?
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