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2005, Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue, ISBN 0226629767:

Sometimes one feels that Ramus is about to apply his notion of genesis to the abstractive process itself so as to include the steps which lead up to, or can lead up to, scientific knowledge, instead of restricting it to the abstractionist approach of his invention and disposition.

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(idiomatichttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic) To set in motionhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/set_in_motion; to act as a causalhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/causal or preparatoryhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preparatory eventhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/event or sequencehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequence of events.

Sentence	2005, Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue, ISBN 0226629767: Sometimes one feels that Ramus is about to apply his notion of genesis to the abstractive process itself so as to include the steps which lead up to, or can lead up to, scientific knowledge, instead of restricting it to the abstractionist approach of his invention and disposition.
Definition	( idiomatic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic ) To set in motion https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/set_in_motion ; to act as a causal https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/causal or preparatory https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preparatory event https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/event or sequence https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequence of events.

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