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• Dream
  During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]] identified dreams as an ...was formally introduced to western philosophy by [[Descartes]] in the 17th century in his [[Meditations on First Philosophy]].
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• Race2
  ...') due in large part to [[American slavery ethics]]. Finally, for the past century or so, to be White one had to have "pure" White ancestry. (Utterly European ...ferent roles Blacks and Amerindians occupied in White-dominated nineteenth-century America. The theory suggests that the blood quantum definition of Native Am
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• Revised Standard Version
  ...Bible translation|translation]] of the [[Bible]] published in the mid-20th century. It traces its history all the way back to [[William Tyndale]]'s New Testam
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• Socialism
  ...ionary/socialism "Socialism"] Modern socialism originated in the late 19th-century [[intellectual]] and working class [[social movement|political movement]] t ...abor movement, until appearance of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. The first U.S. socialist party was founded in 1876, then metamorphosed to
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• Translation
  ...arly literary translation. These two ideals are often at odds. Thus a 17th-century French critic coined the phrase, "les belles infidèles," to suggest that t ...There have been periods, especially in pre-Classical Rome and in the 18th century, when many translators stepped beyond the bounds of translation proper into
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• Personal
  ...wners, minorities, slaves, etc.), from the late 18th through the late 20th century being born as a member of the human species gradually became secular ground
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• Civilization
  ...re''. ''Civilization'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor] ...to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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• Irony
  ...Incomprehensibility"), [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Stendhal]], and the 20th century [[deconstruction]]ist [[Paul de Man]] ("The Concept of Irony"). Briefly, it
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• Harmony
  ...ce to three notes, sounded simultaneously. An anonymous writer of the 13th century (CoussemakerS, i, 297) defined the concordantia (the simultaneity employed ...d imperfect consonances as ‘harmony’ (CoussemakerS, iii, 197); in the 17th century, among other prerequisites for the composition of contrappunto moderno, Chr
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• 2002-08-25-Urantia's Capacity To Survive
  ...about it tomorrow" sort of philosophy of living is antiquarian, it is 20th Century, it is out of date and it will not sustain your lives, your communities, or
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• Prophet
  In the late 20th Century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals partic ...wn is [[Nostradamus]], who was born in France at the beginning of the 16th century.
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• Determinism
  Since the early twentieth century when astronomer [[Edwin Hubble]] first hypothesized that [[redshift]] shows Since the beginning of the 20th century, [[quantum mechanics]] has revealed previously concealed aspects of events.
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• Emotion
  ...comes from William James in the 1880s. The theory lost favour in the 20th Century, but has regained popularity more recently due largely to theorists such as ...pectives on emotions from evolution theory were initiated in the late 19th century with [[Charles Darwin]]'s book ''The Expression of Emotions in Man and Anim
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• Mysticism
  ...One example of the opposite can be found in [[Meister Eckhart]], the 14th century Christian mystic, who was brought before the [[Inquisition]] for heresy bec ...history. In his work, ''Kabbalah'', [[Gershom Scholem]], a prominent 20th century scholar of that field, stated: ''The Kabbalah is not a single system with b
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• Responsibility
  ...mprove his lot) illustrates the denial of responsibility. In the late 20th century US, the best-selling didactic and allegorical fable ''Who Moved My Cheese?'
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• 2014-01-17-The Flurry 17
  from Salvington on behalf of Christ Michael in the late 19th and early 20th century Urantia. Imperator Stainton Moses guidance fame of well over a century ago.
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• 2008-07-24-Seeming Death
  ...There are a group of Christians who once lived on earth in the 19th- 20th Century, who they regard as Generals in God's army because of some mighty works tha
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• Human Being
  ...struggles for [[independence]]. The [[Scientific Revolution]] in the 17th century and the [[Industrial Revolution]] in the 18th – 19th centuries promoted m ...urban area]]s, and this percentage is expected to rise throughout the 21st century. Problems for humans living in [[city|cities]] include various forms of [[p
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• Chemistry
  ...hysics and biology. See Carsten Reinhardt. ''Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century: Bridging Boundaries''. Wiley-VCH, 2001. ISBN 3527302719. Pages 1-2. ...own in Europe through [[Latin]] translations by a [[pseudo-Geber]] in 14th century [[Spain]], who also wrote some of his own books under the pen name "Geber".
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• Nature
  ..."physical" shows its use as a synonym for "natural" in about the mid-15th century: [https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=physical] ...ironment in which they exist, and also with other life forms. In the 20th century this premise gave rise to the concept of '''ecosystems''', which can be def
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