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• Phenomena
  *"[[Scientific theory]] is a contrived foothold in the [[chaos]] of living phenomena." - [ ...phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." [[Sir William Osler]]
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• Parapsychology
  *1: a field of [[study]] concerned with the [[investigation]] of [[evidence]] for paranormal psych ...930s as a replacement for the term psychical research. Parapsychologists [[study]] a number of ostensibly paranormal [[phenomena]], including [[telepathy]],
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• Observation
  *7. a. The action or an act of observing [[scientific]]ally; esp. the careful watching and noting of an object or [[phenomenon]] ...t to close scrutiny or monitoring, spec. as the object of [[scientific]] [[study]] under experimental or natural conditions. Cf. sense 7a, UNDER prep. 13c.
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• Dictionary
  ...i/Lexicology lexicology] and terminology are two [[different]] fields of [[study]]. In [[theory]], general dictionaries are supposed to be [https://en.wikip ...gual dictionaries), the systematic [[study]] of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest themselves is a 20th century enterprise, called [https://en.wikipe
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• 2017-04-06-The Future of Medicine
  ...of Pathology'''. Pathology is the study of diseases. It is the scientific study of what makes people sick that has culminated with the impressive progress ...cally incorrect word. However, it is what is meant that matters: a serious study and effective action to improve the genetic human stocks on Urantia. That i
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• Topography
  ...e 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps. The earliest [[scientific]] surveys in France were called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini ...[[Greek]] τόπος topo-, "place", and γράφω graphia, "[[writing]]") is the [[study]] of [[Earth]]'s [[surface]] shape and features or those of [[planets]], [[
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• Faith
  ...some of their knowledge to so called "[[authorities]]" in a given field of study. This is true because one simply does not have the time or resources to eva ...od is not an objective method removed from man's passion. On the contrary, scientific progress depends primarily on the unique capability of free man to notice a
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• Asexuality
  ...may also be considered a lack of a sexual orientation. One commonly cited study published in 2004 placed the prevalence of asexuality at 1%. ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation sexual orientation] and a field of scientific [[research]], and a growing body of research from both [[sociological]] and
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...is also President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...rn Esotericism” (both Brill), as well as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the edito
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• Perspiration
  ..., helps the [[body]] to remove [[toxins]], but the [[belief]] is without [[scientific]] [[support]]. [[Evaporation]] of sweat from the skin [[surface]] has a coo A [[study]] has [[discovered]] that [[men]], on [[average]], start perspiring much mo
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• Literacy
  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "[[ability]] to Other [[genres]] under [[study]] by academia include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_literacy crit
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• Numerology
  *1: the [[study]] of the [[occult]] significance of [[numbers]] ...ed for those who place [[faith]] in numerical [[patterns]] and draw pseudo-scientific [[inferences]] from them, even if those people do not [[practice]] traditio
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• Systems
  The scientific [[research]] field which is engaged in the study of the general properties of systems include [[systems theory]], systems sc
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• Western Philosophy
  ...oped into the disciplines of the natural sciences over the course of the [[scientific revolution]]. Today, philosophical questions are usually explicitly disting ...philosophy into [[Logic]], [[Ethics]], and '''Physics''' (conceived as the study of the nature of the world, and including both [[natural science]] and [[me
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• Engineering
  ...iscipline]], art, [[skill]] and [[profession]] of acquiring and applying [[scientific]], [[mathematical]], [[economic]], [[social]], and [[practical]] [[knowledg <blockquote>the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufac
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• 92:7 The Further Evolution of Religion
  ...become a [[scientific]] [[fact]]. [[Philosophy]] may, indeed, rest on a [[scientific]] basis, but [[religion]] will ever remain either [https://nordan.daynal.or ...ith]]. There is not a [[Urantia]] [[religion]] that could not profitably [[study]] and assimilate the best of the [[truths]] contained in every other [[fait
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• Fantasy
  ...ence fiction]] and horror by the [[expectation]] that it steers clear of [[scientific]] and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic [[study]] in a number of [[disciplines]] (English, cultural studies, comparative li
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• Computer Science
  ...he very practical aspects of managing large software projects.''" [https://study.massey.ac.nz/major.asp?major_code=2010&prog_code=93068 Massey University] ...me available, many applications of computing have become distinct areas of study in their own right.
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• Research
  ...ientific matters of our world and the [[universe]]. Research can use the [[scientific method]], but need not do so. ...ble organisations and by [[private]] [[groups]], including many companies. Scientific research can be subdivided into different classifications according to thei
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• 103:7 Science and Religion
  ...universe]] [[ascension]] [[experience]] will to no small [[degree]] be the study of [[energy]] [[transmutation]] and [[material]] [[metamorphosis]]. [[God]] 103:7.4 The [[union]] of the [[scientific]] [[attitude]] and the religious [[insight]] by the mediation of [[experien
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