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Scarcely

Jignesh77

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India- hindi
"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."
Albert Einstein Quote
What does "scarcely" mean here?
What does the whole quote mean?
What does "it" refer to in "It can scarcely..."?
You can hardly deny.....
'scarcely', like hardly', means ≈ 'almost not'. (In some contexts, although probably not here, 'barely' is another near-synonym [He barely made it, he almost didn't make it].)
You could deny it, but it would make you look foolish, because it is "obviously" true.
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