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  • The dol – A real unit of pain. One dol was two just-noticeable differences of heat, the scale ran to ten and a half, and in 1947 a woman in labour reached the top.
  • Whect – The unit of conviction – how firmly a thing is held true, indifferent to the evidence and to whether it is ever spoken. It has no plural.

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