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Whenever branches of intellectual activity are at all dissimilar, then their correlations with one another appear wholly due to their being all variously saturated with some common fundamental Function.
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The statement says that very different kinds of intellectual work seem connected not because they resemble one another, but because each contains some amount of the same basic “Function.” Their relationship therefore comes from this shared underlying element, which appears in different degrees across otherwise dissimilar activities.
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