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FELL SWOOP, AT ONE
FELL SWOOP, AT ONE
ScnTUEU
all at once or all together, as if by a
single
blow
. The expression dates from the sixteenth century; the
word
fell was
Old
English
for "fierce" or "
savage
." That
route
has total
self
-
determinism
and other-
determinism
and, of
course
, therefore,
pan
-
determinism
all mixed up in it all at one fell swoop.
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