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          <rev user="Psy" timestamp="2021-08-25T14:59:48Z" comment="" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">&lt;center&gt;This is (going to be) the '''psy'''che's wi'''ki''', where various bits of musings on (mainly) psychology&lt;br&gt; and philosophy, originally from a physical notebook, are uploaded and categorized.
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&lt;categorytree mode=all style=&quot;float:left; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;&quot;&gt;Psychology&lt;/categorytree&gt;
&lt;categorytree mode=all style=&quot;float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;&quot;&gt;Philosophy&lt;/categorytree&gt;
&lt;categorytree mode=all style=&quot;float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;&quot;&gt;Poetic prose&lt;/categorytree&gt;

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&lt;center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Some entries are duplicated due to their belonging to multiple categories at once.)&lt;/small&gt;</rev>
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