Spoken Word Recordings
In 1985 the Paul Winter Consort recorded an album with Robert J. Lurtsema as the narrator. It was made into a book-on-tape in 1990 by Earth Music Productions. In 1992, the American radio show "Hearts of Space" did a musically-accompanied reading (episode 290, first aired on 15May1992) with narration by the late Robert J. Lurtsema. It has also been recorded for BBC Radio 4 with Bill Paterson narrating.
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“First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental content or concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.”
—William of Occam (c. 1285–1349)
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—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 38:17-18.
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—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
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