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We are breaking with the past, because we cannot accept its hypotheses.
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The speaker says that the present must part from earlier ways of thinking because the assumptions behind them are no longer acceptable. “Hypotheses” here means the ideas or explanations taken as a basis for understanding things. The quote presents change as a rejection of those underlying assumptions, not simply a rejection of the past itself.
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