capital E

[Deanna Chiasson]

Dear Seelangers:

I received the following inquiry, and am wondering if anyone can help:

"I'm reading a book on philosophy which uses a capital E with an
 apostrophe on top. What does that stand for?

Here is a sentence using the character (from a Marxist document):

'Dialectics, on the contrary, discerns within these seeming
repetitions an actual (E with ' on top) development from lower to
higher, an evolution in which the same forms may repeat
themselves....'

It seems to be used in documents translated from Russian authors."

Deanna Chiasson



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