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• Democracy
  ...ms then existing in some Greek city-states, notably [[Athens]] following a popular uprising in 508 BC. Democracy is people who rule the government directly.[ Popular [[sovereignty]] is common but not a universal motivating [[philosophy]] for
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• Cultural
  ...processes become embedded. For the, culture thus includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems. ...u/arnoldm_ca/ca_all.html] ''Culture and Anarchy.''] Arnold contrasted mass/popular culture with social chaos or anarchy. On this account, culture links closel
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• Languages and Literature
  Human languages are usually referred to as natural languages, and the science of studying them is [[linguistics]]. Later in the West, the success of [[science]], [[mathematics]], and other [[formal system]]s in the 20th century led ma
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• Intelligence
  A second definition of intelligence comes from "[[Mainstream Science on Intelligence]]", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994 ...t to do''.[https://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/wsj_main.html] Mainstream Science on Intelligence] reprinted in Gottfredson (1997). ''[[Intelligence (journal
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• Physical Cosmology
  ...f human history, it has been a branch of [[metaphysics]]. Cosmology as a [[science]] originates with the [[Copernican principle]], which implies that celestia .../content/abstract/300/5627/1914?siteid=sci&ijkey=eJV6VmToFgZIE&keytype=ref Science 20 June 2003:Vol. 300. no. 5627, pp. 1914 - 1918] Throwing Light on Dark En
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• Catastrophism
  In the 1950s, Immanuel Velikovsky propounded catastrophism in several popular books. He speculated that the planet [[Venus]] is a former "comet" which wa # Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (1965), The Ancestry of Science: The Discovery of Time, p. 64, University of Chicago Press (cf. The Contrib
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• Responsibility
  ...e]] and [[new religious movements]]. Prominent among these are [[Christian Science]] and the [[New Thought Movement]], whose constituent theologies espouse me ====In popular culture====
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• Chakra
  ...[[spiritual]] practices and religions, the concept of chakras have become popular in Western [[culture]] with new-age religion and medical practitioners. ...ay have originated in about the 11th century AD, and rapidly became widely popular. It is in this model where [[Kundalini]] is said to "rise" upward, piercing
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• Philosophy
  ...ipate in the assemblies of Athens and spend long periods in discussions on popular philosophical questions. Students of Sophists needed to acquire the skills ...hilosophical Society]] is actually concerned with what we would now call [[science]] and not modern philosophy.
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• History of the Concept of the Mind, v. 2 - Introduction
  spells and charms. Natural magic was the ‘science’of such occult powers and was ==Magic & Science==
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• Teaching
  ...” approaches to help students learn and apply concepts in subjects such as science, mathematics, or English. They utilize “props” or “manipulatives” t ...a group of students in at least one subject, usually music, art, reading, science, arithmetic, or physical education—to a number of classes. A small but gr
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• Density
  # The first Eureka moment, Science 305: 1219, August 2004. *[https://www.science.co.il/PTelements.asp?s=Density List of Elements of the Periodic Table - Sor
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• Sociology of religion
  ...are used free from negative connotations by sociologists, even though the popular use of these words is often pejorative. ...development]]. As Christiano states, "Marx did not believe in science for science’s sake…he believed that he was also advancing a theory that would…be
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• Chemistry
  ...Dictionary. Retrieved [[August 19]], [[2007]]. Chemistry is a [[physical science]] related to studies of various [[atom]]s, [[molecule]]s, [[crystal]]s and ...ion (1999). ISBN 0130103101. Pages 3-4. It is sometimes called the central science because it is seen as occupying an intermediate position in a hierarchy of
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• Integrity
  Popular discussions of integrity often see the concept as an all-or-nothing affair: ...rporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality". Social Science Research Network. Retrieved on 2008-12-03. "Integrity exists in a positive
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• Paper 88 - Fetishes, Charms, and Magic
  ...red]] as [[fetish]] [[personalities]]. Hysteria increasingly confirmed the popular [[belief]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft]; epilep ...man]] [[attacks]] the [[problems]] of a real [[environment]] through his [[science]]; [[savage]] man attempted to solve the real [[problems]] of an [[illusory
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• 2009-04-02-Channels
  ...as a channel in the context as that word is used today, stemming from its popular understanding in the New Age community, aligned with your understanding of This same lesson can be used for so many words -- so many words that are so popular in your culture today: cult is another word, which is just the base word fo
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• Humanities
  ...as distinguished from the mainly [[empirical]] approaches of the [[natural science|natural]] and [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[ ..., in modern [[academia]], history is increasingly classified as a [[social science]], especially when [[chronology]] is the focus.
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• Emotion
  Another popular option is to divide emotions into basic and complex categories, where some Many different disciplines have produced work on the emotions. [[Human Science|Human sciences]] study the role of emotions in mental processes, disorders,
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• Brainwashing
  ...usceptible to black and white [[thinking]].[14] Meanwhile, in ''Influence, Science and Practice'', social psychologist Robert Cialdini argues that mind contro ...ipulation, stating that such theories were not part of accepted mainline [[science]] according to the Frye Standard (Anthony & Robbins 1992: 5-29). Yet there
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