Meanings
plural extra-terrestrials
- alternativeAlternative form of extraterrestrial.
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If we were intelligent extra-terrestrials who "saw" only in the infra-red end of the spectrum, who got around only by squirming, who found it easier to visualize a Klein bottle in four-dimensional space than a torus in three dimensions, and for whom dissonance was a delight, then we would have a different mathematics.
1995, John Heaton and Judy Groves, Introducing Wittgenstein, A Graphic Guide, page 132
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