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• Color
  ...century, initially within a partisan controversy around [[Isaac Newton]]'s theory of color (''Opticks'', 1704) and the nature of so-called [[primary color]]s ...sical world. This has led to a number of inaccuracies in traditional color theory principles that are not always remedied in modern formulations.
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• Complexity
  In several scientific fields, "complexity" has a specific meaning : *In computational complexity theory, the amounts of resources required for the execution of algorithms is studi
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• Risk
  ...asters forced a more comprehensive [[foresight]]. The [[Scientific Method|scientific]] approach to risk entered [[finance]] in the 1980s when financial derivati Thus, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory statistical decision theory], the risk [[function]] of an estimator δ(x) for a parameter θ, calculate
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• Real Presences
  mirrors which is that of modernist theory and practice’ (141)3 have tantalising resonances with our primary [[creation]] which is the grappling with observation and [[theory]] is kept at a safe distance. In
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• 1:2 The Reality of God
  1:2.4 The [[existence]] of God can never be [[proved]] by [[scientific]] [[experiment]] or by the pure [[reason]] of [[logical]] [[deduction]]. Go 1:2.6 In [[theory]] you may [[think]] of God as the [[Creator]], and he is the personal creat
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• Reflection
  In the theory of exterior noise mitigation, reflective surface size mildly detracts from ...ed in detail by [[Richard Feynman]] in his popular book ''QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter''.
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• Integral Movement
  ...humans]] and the [[universe]] by combining, among other things, [[science|scientific]] and [[spirituality|spiritual]] insights. ...s given a further definition, being made synonymous with Wilber's [[AQAL]] theory [https://aqaljournal.integralinstitute.org/public/Pdf/AQAL_Glossary_01-27-0
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• Universe
  The generally accepted scientific [[theory]] which describes the origin and [[evolution]] of the universe is [[Big Ban
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• Matter
  ...hough again, light is not ordinarily considered matter. Unfortunately, for scientific purposes, "matter" is somewhat loosely defined. It is normally defined as a ...5/2,...,etc.) and thus, by the spin-statistics theorem of [[quantum field theory]], obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which forbids two fermions from occu
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• Vision
  ...h was sighted as the result of the movement of the rays from the eye. This theory was championed by scholars like [[Euclid]] and [[Ptolemy]] and their follow ...se on what really vision is, but [[light]] did not play any role in this [[theory]] and it remained only a speculation lacking any [[experiment]]al foundatio
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• Progress
  ...asing advance. The idea of eternal progress is in opposition to the cyclic theory of eternal return or eternal recurrence, which implies that with a [[finite ...reans]] with having had a potential for leading to the [[foundation]] of a theory of Progress through their [[materialistic]] acceptance of the atomism of De
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• Intuition
  Intuitions are customarily appealed to independently of any particular [[theory]] of how intuitions provide evidence for claims, and there are divergent ac * [https://www.intuition-sciences.com/introduction A scientific research group on intuition]
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• Gravity
  ...on''' and '''gravity''' are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but in scientific usage a distinction may be made. "Gravitation" is a general term describing == History of gravitational theory ==
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• Oral Tradition
  ...by all folklorists). As an [[academic discipline]], it refers both to a [[Scientific method|method]] and the objects studied by the method. ...is summarized from the overlapping prefaces to the following volumes: The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology, (Indiana University Press, 19
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• Animal nature
  ...logy (from Greek: ἦθος, ethos, "[[character]]"; and -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of [[Behavior|'''''animal behavior''''']], and a branch of [[zoology] ...y much more complex than it looks. When biologists interested in evolution theory first started examining social behaviour, some apparently unanswerable ques
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• Phase Change
  Often also ''magnetic'' phases are used as the basis of a theory, and for introductory motivation. However, usually these are similar to the ...4</sup>-Theories'', [https://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/4733.html World Scientific (Singapore, 2001)]; Paperback ISBN 9810246595'' (readable online [https://
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• Philology
  ..., [[rhetoric]], [[history]], [[interpretation]] of authors, and [[critical theory|critical traditions]] associated with a given language. ...[[historical linguistics]]," philology was one of the 19th century's first scientific approaches to human language but gave way to the modern science of [[lingui
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• Simplicity
  ...According to [[Occam's razor]], all other things being equal, the simplest theory is the most likely to be true. In the [[context]] of human lifestyle, simpl ...at she does nothing in vain, and the like" (Galileo 1962, p. 397). Nor are scientific advocates of simplicity principles restricted to the ranks of physicists an
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• 90:4 Medicine Under the Shamans
  ...ed [[disease]]. The red men were especially [[devoted]] to the [[plant]] [[theory]] of universal remedies; they always put a drop of blood in the [[root]] ho ...rehension]] and rejoice in the [[illumination]] and [[enlightenment]] of [[scientific]] [[research]].
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• The Origins Of Religion in Universal Consciousness
  ...t here represents a "third way." I will state in advance that my while my theory is fully humanistic and phenomenological, it by no means repudiates the pos In the [[materialism|materialistic]] scientific [[model]], matter and energy are the two exclusive building blocks of every
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