See nonsensification on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1992, A. E. Barshay, \"Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan,\" Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 382 n.44",
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"text": "The Child's Conception of Space (Piaget & Inhelder, 1956) represents a tremendous mental effort to describe the metaphysical contents of Space, the marvelous monads, without really communicating it to anyone. . . . This book is an extraordinary example of nonsensification.",
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