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• 2022-06-12-Forgiveness
  ...the opportunity, the golden [[opportunity]], to forgive. But it is not a [[theory]], “it ain’t book larnin”, it is So, in [[this world]] with its many tossings and turnings, many [[belief]] systems, many mind sets, all its
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• 121:6 The Hebrew Religion
  ...In the matter of the combination of the better elements in contemporaneous systems of [[ethical]] and [[religious]] teachings, there have been [[seven]] outst ...ce]] of the [[Thought Adjusters]] more clearly than did Paul. But Paul's [[theory]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin original sin], the doctrin
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• Sociology of religion
  ...es put that number closer to 200 million. The rise of [[Islam]] as a major world religion, especially its new-found influence in the West, is another signif ...eve in science for science’s sake…he believed that he was also advancing a theory that would…be a useful tool…[in] effecting a revolutionary upheaval of
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• Information
  ...at "the signal contained thousands of bits of information". Communication theory tends to use the concept of [[information entropy]], generally attributed t ...[[R.A. Fisher]]. This is used in application of statistics to [[estimation theory]] and to science in general. Fisher information is thought of as the amoun
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• Hermeneutics
  '''Hermeneutics''' is the study of [[interpretation]] theory. [[Tradition]]al hermeneutics - which includes [[Bible|Biblical]] hermeneut Philosophical hermeneutics refers primarily to [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]]'s theory of [[knowledge]] as developed in ''Truth and Method'', and sometimes to [[P
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• Neuroscience
  ...Neolithic] times and has been found in various [[cultures]] throughout the world. Manuscripts dating back to 1700BC indicated that the Egyptians had some [[ ...ogression of seizures through the [[body]]. Wernicke further developed the theory of the specialization of specific brain structures in language comprehensio
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• Geography
  ...ure]] and to mark their influences upon man. This is 'a description of the world';that is Geography. In a word Geography is a Science - a thing not of mere * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_theory Culture theory]
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• Chance
  ...om, but everything for a [[reason]] and by necessity". To the atomists the world was completely [[deterministic]]. However, Democritus also claimed that cha ...ter developed into the concept of [[information]] entropy in [[information theory]].
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• Ideology
  ...fer change in society through a normative thought process. Ideologies are systems of abstract thought (as opposed to mere [[idea]]tion) applied to public mat == Ideology and Semiotic Theory ==
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• Duality
  ...rn religions) between the "benevolent" and the "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a con ...g it, or when one perceives a "self" that is distinct from the rest of the world. In mystic [[tradition]]s such as Zen or Sufism, a key to enlightenment is
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• 74:8 The Legend of Creation
  ...[origin]] in the [[traditions]] of the onetime sudden [[emergence]] of the world from a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_dust dense space cloud] of minu ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipines Philippine Islands] around the world to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Africa]. And many [[groups]] accep
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• Inter-dimensional
  According to this theory, the phenomenon manifests itself as a control mechanism, whose function app ...[[perception]] of that [[society]], by the propagation of alternate belief systems. Such a change appears to undermine society's belief in established [[autho
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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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• Social
  ...reality and what (or how) we can know about it are the object of [[social theory]]. * interactive systems in communities of [[animal]] or [[insect]] populations, or any living organ
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• Empowerment
  ...ve [[authority]] in its charter to install water-delivery and purification systems, even though the lack of such a [[system]] [[profound]]ly, directly and neg ...in the knowledge, skill-sets and attitude needed to cope with the changing world and the circumstances in which one lives.
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• Ethics
  ...'' "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of [[Value theory|value]]s and [[Custom (law)|custom]]s of a person or group. It covers the [ ...selves and others ([[emotivism]] or [[prescriptivism]]) or on their belief systems ([[cultural relativism|cultural]] or individual relativism). Despite the na
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• Discourse
  ...ilosopher [[Michel Foucault]] (1926-1984) and [[Jürgen Habermas]]' ''[[The Theory of Communicative Action]]'' (''Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns''). Each ...to developmental psychology by [[Erica Burman]] and in relation to social theory and psychoanalysis by [[Ian Parker (psychologist)]], and a critical researc
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• Philosophy
  ...n all respects governed by mind), the [[Pluralists]] and [[Atomists]] (the world is composite of innumerable interacting parts), the [[Eleatic School|Eleati ...story, possibly even causing its failure (See [[Battle of Lade]]). Another theory explains the birth of philosophical debate in Athens with the presence of a
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• Sovereignty
  ...usually identical in political reality as in the [[Commonwealth Realm]]s. Systems of representative democracy can also be mixed with other methods of governm ...n an attempt, argues [[Giorgio Agamben]], to counter [[Walter Benjamin]]'s theory of [[violence]] as radically disjoint from law. [[Georges Bataille]]'s hete
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• Knowledge
  ...fulfilled; that in order to count as knowledge, a [[statement]] must be [[theory of justification|justified]], [[truth|true]], and [[belief|believed]]. Some ...that one can "forget", even someone suffering from amnesia experiences the world in 3D. See also: ''[[A priori and a posteriori (philosophy)|A priori and a
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