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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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as or as in
Does the highlighted "as" mean "as in" (i.e. In such ongoing theoretical disputes, as in the essentialism/constructionism debate,...)?
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In such ongoing theoretical disputes as the essentialism/constructionism debate, positionality provides a way of understanding knowledge and essence as contingent and strategic.
Context:
In such ongoing theoretical disputes as the essentialism/constructionism debate, positionality provides a way of understanding knowledge and essence as contingent and strategic.
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The pattern is "such X as Y", meaning that Y is the kind of X that I'm referring to.
- The pattern is "such X as Y", meaning that Y is the kind of X that I'm referring to.
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The pattern is "such X as Y", meaning that Y is the kind of X that I'm referring to.
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