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• Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
  ...om.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t244 ''''''A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation''''''] ...Gaia hypothesis]], and Ozone depletion, and 10 appendices covering a range of related subjects including international environmental treaties, the Beaufo
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• Systems Theory
  ...ted in other fields, such as in the structural functionalist [[sociology]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons Talcott Parsons] and Niklas ==History==
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• Past
  ...00-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from past participle of passen to pass ...sually formed by internal vowel [[change]] (as in sang) or by the addition of a suffix (as in laughed)
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• Fatalism
  ...the [[doctrine]] that all things are determined by fate; a particular form of this [[doctrine]]. ...trine that all [[events]] take place in accordance with unvarying [[laws]] of [[causation]]. In strict etymological propriety, and in the best modern usa
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...From 2008 he will be Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. ...Cambridge, where he has been ever since. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.
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• Vegan
  ...ters of vegetarian to form "vegan," which he saw as "the beginning and end of vegetarian. Vegan is pronounced /ˈviːɡən/[18]. Some people pronounce ve ...mal]]s.” According to this [[understanding]], veganism is not itself a set of [[actions]] or [[practices]] but instead “a principle, from which certain
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...so President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...soterica (journal)|Esoterica]]'', and on the advisory board of ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'' and ''[[Nova Religio]]''.
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• Classics
  ...tudy in the humanities. The word "Classics" also refers to the literature of that period. ...he eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Oxford Reference Premium
  ...story]] titles such as the ''Encyclopedia of Mammals''. This means a total of over 1.4 million entries, including longer, in-depth, signed entries with b ...reference titles offered by the original Core Collection PLUS a whole host of additional material such as:
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• Immanuel Kant
  ...nse. ''His Critique of Practical Reason'' (1788) affirms the [[existence]] of an absolute moral law—the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_Impe ...[[experience]] and limiting the mind’s access only to the empirical realm of [[space and time]].
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• 121:6 The Hebrew Religion
  ...ern and Western schools] of [[Hebrew]] thought, [[Jerusalem]] and the rest of the [[Occident]] and the [[Levant]] in general adopted the Western Jewish o ...[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s Christian [[cult]] toward [[the West]] instead of toward [[the East]].
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• Political philosophy
  ...apparatus behind such concepts as aforementioned are analyzed, in their [[history]], [[intent]], [[evolution]] and the like. ...n Eric Voegelin] and Judith Shklar—encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their stud
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• Western Philosophy
  ...[[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Oriental philosophies]] and the varieties of indigenous philosophies. ...versal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philosophy]], [[music]], and many other subjects as indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Ari
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• Everything
  ...absence|nothing]], although an alternative view considers "nothing" a part of everything. In ordinary [[conversation]], everything usually refers only to the totality of [[things]] relevant to the subject [[matter]].[1] When there is no expresse
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• Dogma
  *A. adj. 1. Pertaining to the setting forth or laying down of opinion; didactic. rare. :2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, dogma or dogmas; characterized by or consisting in dogma; doctrinal.
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• 87:4 Good and Bad Spirit Ghosts
  ...n]]; and for ages many [[tribes]] clung to the old [[belief]] in one class of ghosts. They taught that man had good luck when the ghost was pleased, bad ...who had [[progressed]] beyond the domain of ghostland to the higher realms of spiritland.
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...circumstances were further enhanced by the [[tolerant]] [[political]] rule of the [[Mediterranean]] world by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident# ...religious]] culture a [[Hebrew]] of the Hebrews, proclaimed the [[gospel]] of a Jewish [[Messiah]] in the [[Greek]] tongue, while he himself was a [[Roma
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• Physics
  ...[mathematics]] as the logical framework for formulation and quantification of principles. ...[[thermodynamics]], and the [[quantum mechanics|quantum mechanical]] model of atomic and subatomic physics.
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• 94:3 Brahmanic Philosophy
  ...] and the [[fact]] of the [[ascending]] [[experience]] in the [[universe]] of these very [[creatures]] as they seek to [[attain]] the [[eternal]] Father, ..., even an [[infinite]], [[being]], but this [[concept]] was largely devoid of [[personality]] [[attributes]] and was therefore not experiencible by [[ind
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• Nationalism
  ...emphasis on promotion of its [[culture]] and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational [[groups]] ...orms]] of nationalism are revolutionary, calling for the [[establishment]] of an [[independent]] [[state]] as a homeland for an ethnic underclass.
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