The elements of style are rarely found in pure form. Usually, they're bound in sentence ores that have to be datamined, processed, refined
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This, sir, is most excellent. (Interested in Merleau-Ponty, Hacking and Fleck on scientific style.)
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Though it's only when they've been integrated into stable argots that they're safe to handle with the naked brain.
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