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01cite10Dobbin12cite10Hello. Could someone tell me please what is the meaning of the phrase "at every juncture"? Does it mean10 "in close details" or "in every aspect" or something different? The context is that a historian of science makes an attempt at reconstructing "at every juncture" the climate of ideas in which a famous theori

0 Thank you, Philip. Anyway, from your reply as well as from the lack of any other replies I guess this phrase is as vague for you native speakers as it seemed to me. Am I right? In fact I find it an element of too sophisticated and somewhat odd parlance of the author I have read. 0-

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01cite10Dobbin12cite10Thank you, Philip. Anyway, from your reply as well as from the lack of any other replies I guess this phrase is as vague for you native speakers as it seemed to me. Am I right? In fact I find it an element of too sophisticated and somewhat odd parlance of the author I have read.12blockquote

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0 Without context, I'd read it as "01b00at every (significant) opportunity02b00"02br
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01b00302b00 01b00:02b00 a point of time; 01i00especially02i00 01b00:02b00 one made critical or importan

0Believe me, my experience with scientific texts taught me that scientific writers really don't know what they mean by what they say more often than we could normally expect. Now I think the phrase in question becomes more clear. I hope it won't be overkill if I outline very briefly its context. My author pointed out to some advantages of a historical approach to assesing the theories over ahist

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11cite20Dobbin22cite20Hello. Could someone tell me please what is the meaning of the phrase "at every juncture"? Does it mean "in close details" or "in every aspect" or something different? The context is that a historian of science makes an attempt at recons