The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became "real" according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: "I swallow it, therefore it is." - Florence E. King

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Florence E. King: "The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became "real" according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: "I swallow it, therefore it is.""

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According	American	Anything	Became
Cartesianism	Chemical	Define	Defined
Except	Intangible	Into	Long
Nutritive	Once	Originally	Pill
Precepts	Precise	Real	Reified
Scientists	Swallow	Therefore	Unit
Value	Vitamin

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