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...public; and so long as they are only doubted, most men will be persuaded (by arguments something like Vitoria’s) to fight. Their routine habits of law-abidingness, their fear, their patriotism, their moral investment in the state, all favor that course. Or, alternatively, they are so terribly young when the disciplinary system of the state catches them up and sends them...

...public circulation. Thus, performances may stray significantly from an ideal without seeming to be out of tune (that is, too sharp or too flat), even to insider experts. Second, instrument makers in some traditions deliberately manipulate octaves and/or unisons to be slightly and pleasingly out of tune. Builders of gamelan ensembles in central Java, the most populous...