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• Behavior
  ...ing" (see under [[Ivan Pavlov]] led to the rise of Operant Conditioning, a theory advocated by [[B.F. Skinner]], which took over the academic establishment u
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• Computer Science
  ...allenges in implementing computations. For example, [[programming language theory]] studies approaches to describing computations, while [[computer programmi * [[Scientific computing]] enabled advanced study of the mind and mapping the human genome
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• Spiritual Evolution
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics cybernetic] principles. A more "[[mainstream]]" scientific presentation of this same [[idea]] is provided by [https://en.wikipedia.org ==Integral theory==
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• Holism
  *1: a [[theory]] that the [[universe]] and especially living [[nature]] is correctly seen ...used as a catchword. This contributed to the resistance encountered by the scientific interpretation of holism, which insists that there are [https://en.wikipedi
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• Mind Control
  ...Sociological_Association American Sociological Association] have found any scientific merit in such [[theories]].
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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 ...eval studies). [[Work]] in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov Tzvetan Todorov], which e
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• Objectivity
  ==The scientific virtues== ...he truth-conducive tools of [[thought]] used by objective thinkers are the scientific [[virtue]]s. When formulating a hypothesis to explain a particular fact, ma
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• Process philosophy
  ...not essential. This classical ontology is what made [[knowledge]] and a [[theory]] of knowledge possible, as it was thought that a science of something in [ ...g]]" and the "physics of [[becoming]]". Process philosophy covers not just scientific [[intuitions]] and [[experiences]], but can be used as a conceptual bridge
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• Spectrum
  ...e Goethe] in his ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_(book) Theory of Colors]'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Schopen ...[rainbow]] of [[colors]] in visible light when separated using a prism. As scientific understanding of light advanced, it came to apply to the entire [https://en
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• Thunder
  ...r theories have been proposed. By the mid-19th century, the [[accepted]] [[theory]] was that lightning produced a [[vacuum]]. In the 20th century a [[consens
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• Knowledge
  ...in the condition described. Consequently the proper object of unqualified scientific knowledge is something which cannot be other than it is.|[[Aristotle]]|''[[ ...fulfilled; that in order to count as knowledge, a [[statement]] must be [[theory of justification|justified]], [[truth|true]], and [[belief|believed]]. Some
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• Genre
  ...ies. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on [[faster-than-light]] travel, are still
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• Paradigm
  ...nary defines this usage as "a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and t ==Scientific paradigm==
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• Isaac Newton
  ...e most influential [[scientists]] of all time and as a key figure in the [[scientific revolution]]. His book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Na ...on also built the first practical reflecting [[telescope]] and developed a theory of [[color]] based on the observation that a prism decomposes white [[light
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• Skepticism
  ...al skeptic. However, Descartes was not himself a skeptic and developed his theory of an absolute certainty to disprove other skeptics who argued that there i ==Scientific skepticism==
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• Plausible
  Within the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_religion social scientific study of religion], the [[problem]] of '''plausibility''' usually revolves ...social [[change]]. [[Researchers]] also have applied the [[concept]] to [[theory]] construction regarding [[conversion]] and defection [[dynamics]] as well
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• Phenomena
  *"[[Scientific theory]] is a contrived foothold in the [[chaos]] of living phenomena." - [[Wilhel
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• Human Evolution
  ...w this change occurred. The study of human [[evolution]] encompasses many scientific disciplines, most notably physical [[anthropology]], [[linguistics]] and [[ ...arwin wrote on the subject. Nevertheless, the implications of evolutionary theory were clear to contemporary readers (On the Origin of Species, [https://darw
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• Orbs
  ...article on orb photos. A mathematical framework is given using holography theory. * [https://www.theorbzone.com/ The Orb Zone: Orbs Explained] Presenting the [[scientific]] [[evidence]] and accessible explanations for the orb [[phenomena]].
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• Animism
  ...871 [[book]] ''Primitive Culture'', in which he defined it as being "the [[theory]] of the [[universal]] animation of [[nature]]". ...e natural world as being innately alive. Being a self-described "confirmed scientific [[rationalist]]", he himself however believed that such a view was "childis
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