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    "body": "In the current corpus, this annotation connects 725 passages across 14 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics, Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.",
    "aliases": [
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        "thinkers": 9,
        "traditions": 6
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