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The word 'assemblage' is gaining importance in the humanities and social sciences as a concept of knowledge, but its uses remain disparate and sometimes imprecise due to two main factors. First, the concept is understood to be derived from the French word 'agencement', which implies specific connections with a complex of such concepts, and secondly, the translation of agencement by assemblage can give rise to connotations based on analogical impressions, which liberate elements of a vocabulary from the arguments that once helped form it.
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Transgender is one in a series of terms which, in the social sciences, seek to name counter-normative materializations of gender on individual bodies, through practices of gender-crossing either in matters of dress and presentation, and/or in terms of body modification. In its 1990s activist reincarnation, transgender came to function as an umbrella term signifying gender non-conformity, so making possible a broad alliance among different gender-variant people, including cross-dressers and transsexuals.
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Contemporary science relies upon mathematics, which has always been closely connected with religious beliefs in the West as well as in Islamic rational theology. Christian rational theologians regarded mathematics as teaching a 'universal' means of argument and proof aimed at those who did not accept an appeal to their scriptures as a means of proof.
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