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• Canon
  The term is also applied by Westerners to other religions, but in inconsistent ways: for example, in ==Mathematics==
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• Probability
  ...in probability theory, that is used extensively in such areas of study as mathematics, [[statistics]], [[finance]], gambling, science, and philosophy to draw con ...century, the term 'probable' (Latin probabilis) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action. A probable action or o
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• Spectrum
  Spectrum has since been applied by [[analogy]] to topics outside of optics. Thus, one might talk about the ...have a unifying theme, but they led to [[modern]] ones. Modern usages in [[mathematics]] did evolve from a unifying theme, but this may be difficult to recognize.
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• Western Philosophy
  ...ideas about [[universal proposition|universal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philosophy]], [[music]], and many other subject ...ct disciplines for these sciences, and their separation from philosophy: [[mathematics]] became a specialized science in the ancient world, and "natural philosoph
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• 133:5 At Athens—Discourse on Science
  ...sheep in ten minutes, ten men could shear it in one minute. That is sound mathematics, but it is not true, for the ten men could not so do it; they would get in 133:5.6 [[Mathematics]] asserts that, if one person stands for a certain [[unit]] of [[intellectu
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• Aptitude
  ...ause all [[ability]] test scores tend to be correlated. Aptitude is better applied intra-individually to [[determine]] what tasks a given individual is [[rela ...oth on [[innate]] mathematical [[ability]] and [[education]] received in [[mathematics]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude]
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• Natural Sciences
  ...dy human behavior and society, and from the [[formal science]]s, such as [[mathematics]] and [[logic]], which use a different [[methodology]]. ...and from the [[humanities]], [[theology]] and the [[art]]s on the other. [[Mathematics]], [[statistics]] and [[computer science]] are not considered natural scien
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• Space
  ...part [[Event (philosophy)|event]]s occur. However, these measurements are applied by our minds to categorize what we sense and are not an inherent part of th ==In mathematics==
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• Proof
  ...rous deduction. In [[formal]] [[axiomatic]] [[systems]] of [[logic]] and [[mathematics]], a proof is a [[finite]] sequence of well developed [[formulas]] (generat :10. a. A standard of strength of distilled alcoholic liquors; applied to or denoting liquor of this strength; the relative strength (usually meas
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• 88:6 The Practice of Magic
  ...white and black [[magic]]. And as [[religion]] evolved, magic was the term applied to [[spirit]] operations outside one's own [[cult]], and it also referred t ...s], while [[belief]] in [[magic]] [[numbers]] founded the [[science]] of [[mathematics]].
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• Mesopotamia
  ...milar geographical concept. Later, the term Mesopotamia was more generally applied to all the lands between the Euphrates and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ...planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture." A modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyri
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• Social
  The adjective "social" implies that the verb or noun to which it is applied is somehow more communicative, cooperative, and moderated by contact with h ...that do not include the word "social". An example is [[quasi-empiricism in mathematics]] which is sometimes labelled social constructivism by those who see it as
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• Symmetry
  ...ns, rigid rotations, reflections, scaling, etc.). Emmy Noether (1882–1935) applied Klein's approach to theoretical physics to establish in 1915 a famous theor
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• Common sense
  ...tion]], the universal [[belief]] in the existence of a [[material]] world. Applied to the Scotch school which arose in the 18th c. in opposition to the views ...ogy absent original assumptions stemming from common sense? Particularism, applied to [[ethics]] and [[politics]], may seem to simply entrench prejudice and o
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• The Sciences
  ...fined here is sometimes termed [[pure science]] to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific huma [[Mathematics]], which is sometimes classified within a third group of science called [[f
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• Genius
  ...first IQ tests, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Binet Alfred Binet], applied the term, to the top .1% of those tested.[2][3] This usage of the term is c ...he most frequent value. Quetelet [[discovered]] that the bell-shaped curve applied to social [[statistics]] gathered by the French government in the course of
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• Mirror
  The tin is applied because silver will not bond with the glass. The activator causes the tin/s ...eflectivities of 90–95% when new. A protective transparent overcoat may be applied to prevent oxidation of the reflective layer. Applications requiring higher
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• Science
  ...defined here is sometimes termed 'pure science' to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific huma [[Mathematics]], which is sometimes classified within a third group of science called [[f
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• Analogy
  ...] the word ''αναλογια'' (''analogia'') originally meant [[Proportionality (mathematics)|proportionality]], in the mathematical sense, and it was indeed sometimes ...n]] stating as a premise a (previously hidden) universal proposition which applied both to the source and the target. In this view, instead of an argument wit
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• Focus
  ...called the eccentricity. Even in the case of two foci, the described set, applied on a single focus-directrix combination, is the whole conic section. [[Category: Mathematics]]
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