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• Social Sciences
  ...apply equations to statements about [[human behavior]] became increasingly common. Among the first were the "Laws" of [[philology]], which attempted to map t ...[''oikos''], "family, household, estate," and νόμος [''nomos''], "custom, law," and hence means "household management" or "management of the state." An [
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• Metaphysics
  ...atin origins are clear, various dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387.[http ...foundation of all other inquiries. An example of such a principle is the [[law]] of noncontradiction and the status it holds in non-paraconsistent [[logic
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• Time
  ...ortest shadow on a sundial. This was used in Rome to judge when a court of law was open; lawyers had to be at the court by that time. ...ollins Publishers, 2003, hardcover 480 pages, ISBN 0-06-621173-5</ref> The English word [[clock]] actually comes from French, Latin, and German words that mea
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  from your future and using such language common to you now that may lift and heal the [[soul]] of America. Yours is the mo ...makes clear that the tyrannical autocracy of King George the Third and his English aristocracy had to transform into American democracy, the [[power]] of the
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• Tycho Brahe
  ...pronounced [ˈtaɪ.kəʊ ˈbɹɑː.hi] or [ˈtaɪ.kəʊ ˈbɹɑː.ə] in [[English language|English]]. The original Danish name Tyge Ottesen Brahe is pronounced in Modern Sta ...versally referred to as "Tycho" rather than by his surname "Brahe", as was common in Scandinavia.
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• History
  ...oks?id=wrACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?i ...y]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "h
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• Compassion
  The first of what in [[English]] are called the [[Four Noble Truths]] is the [[truth]] of suffering or duk ...st, marks a people as cruel (Jer. vi. 23). The repeated injunctions of the Law and the Prophets that the widow, the orphan and the stranger should be prot
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• 2006-04-03-Meaning Of Spiritual Value
  ...ing, and while they have parallels to what you know as physical or natural law, there is something distinct about the spiritual realm and what works there One fact that spiritual laws have most in common with physical ones is the degree to which both are not obvious unless you a
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• Chosen People
  ...nd beneficiaries of election vary even within the traditions themselves, a common set of difficult, and in some cases, unanswered questions underlie this art ...ead Sea]] during the first centuries before and after the beginning of the common era. They alone, they claimed, were the true Israel. Pointing to the [[reve
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• Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  ...g and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer.[https://www.episcopalarchives.org/e-archives/canons/CandC_FINAL_11. ...change in self-identity can be seen in the title page of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which says ''According to the use of The Episcopal Church''. The lo
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• Conservatism
  ...ake of some doctrine or theory, runs the risk of running afoul of the iron law of [[unintended consequence]]s. Burke advocates vigilance against the possi ...served the interests of the people involved. "As Burke had declared…this law ... encroached upon property rights... . To the eighteenth century Whig, no
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• Color
  ...man poet and government minister [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], and ''The Law of Simultaneous Color Contrast'' (1839) by the French industrial chemist [[ Subsequently, German and English scientists established in the late 19th century that color perception is be
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• 2010-11-26-Urantia Book & Subjectivity
  ...ty if you will, obeying all of God’s material/energy laws you call Natural Law. You too have an existential existence in the very fact of your being. Yo ...stance, just ink symbols on paper. But the moment you start to read it in English, instantaneously you are responding to it in a way very unique to you.
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• Sacrifice
  '''Sacrifice''' (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make [[sacred]]", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: ...al marks long before any written records of the practice. Sacrifices are a common theme in most [[religion]]s, though the frequency of [[animal]], and especi
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• Community
  ...n. The word is often used to refer to a [[group]] that is organised around common values and social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally ...‘universitas incolarum urbis vel oppidi,’ and this was its earlier use in English: see II.]
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• Causality
  ...aces the account of causes in terms of fundamental principles or general [[law]]s, as the intended whole (macrostructure) is the cause that explains the p ...o more than a chain of events following one after another according to the law of cause and effect. To hold this [[frame of reference|worldview]], as an i
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• Western Philosophy
  ...of the [[state]], political [[justice]], political freedom, the nature of law, the administration of justice and [[paternalism]]. ...en to be equivalent to [[axiology]] (a term not in as much currency in the English-speaking world as it once was), and sometimes is taken to be, instead of a
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• Library Science
  ...'' is an interdisciplinary [[science]] incorporating the [[humanities]], [[law]] and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the collection, In the English speaking world the term "library science" appeared in the early 1930s, in t
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• Radical
  ::b. Geom. Having a common relation to two or more (esp. intersecting) circles or spheres. Chiefly in ...e found for any other Year, by the help of the Tables of mean Motions, for common Julian Years. 1799 J. WORSDALE Coll. Remarkable Nativities 17 The moon was
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• Politics
  ...t]] is the [[body]] that has the power to make and [[authority]] to make [[law]]s, rules, and policies. Governments exist in all institutions that have l ...nfucius]] ([https://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html] available in English here])
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