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Fixing a bad choice of vocabulary

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......@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ still close to its greek etymology: a "ring of all knowledges", from *κύκλο
by Rabelais in *Pantagruel*, when he has Thaumaste declare that Panurge opened
to him "le vray puys et abisme de Encyclopedie" ("the true well and abyss of
Encyclopedia"). At the time the word still mostly refers to the abstract concept
of mastering all knowledges at once. Furetière adds that it's a quality one
is unlikely to possess, and even seems to condemn its search as a form of
hubris: "C'est une témérité à un homme de vouloir posséder l'Encyclopédie"
("it is a recklessness for a man to want to possess Encyclopedia").
of mastering all knowledges at once. Furetière adds that it's a quality one is
unlikely to possess, and even seems to condemn its pursuit as a form of hubris:
"C'est une témérité à un homme de vouloir posséder l'Encyclopédie" ("it is a
recklessness for a man to want to possess Encyclopedia").
Beyond this moral reproach, the concept that pleased Rabelais was somewhat dated
at the end of the 17^th^ century and attacked in the
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