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experimentation (if not to be linked to recognizable theory). Such ideolo-
gies did not make opinions such as Kline’s necessary and did not engender
them directly, but they shaped the intellectual climate within which he and
h i s m e n t a l k i n g r e w u p a s m a t h e m a t i c i a n s a n d a s h i s t o r i a n s.
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