Word: certain
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...After significant study, Chaouli continues, certain laws and properties are discovered that can lead to a more advanced understanding of a given field. When a scholar makes a contribution to a field, others are supposed to be able to use it to progress to still more advanced principles...
...There are certain things we can't prove, but we still want to say them," Chaouli says, "and literature allows us to do that. It's always going to be in the in-between area between science and opinion. We shouldn't give it up because of this, but enjoy...
...There is still, of course, certain information that must be known to study literature. "You need to know what happens on a structural level to understand the excesses to that structure that authors use," Chaouli says...
...Such a critique, he says, misunderstands his arguments. For the purposes of literature, certain questions can be posed more shrewdly or more interestingly with recourse to terms that are no longer acceptable in scientific disciplines...
...Take, for example, one of Harvard's most influential innovator-alums, Edwin Land. As an undergraduate, Land invented the polarizing filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film...