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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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• Logic
  ...J. Robert Cox and Charles Arthur Willard, eds. ''Advances in Argumentation Theory and Research'', Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 ISBN 0809310503, I ...Principia is no longer much used, having been largely supplanted by [[set theory]]. As the study of formal logic expanded, research no longer focused solel
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• Senses
  ...nded more rapidly than knowledge about the development of other perceptual systems. This discrepancy has occurred, in part, because of the [[belief]] that the ...ltiple sensory sources and on the coordination of the perceptual and motor systems. Finally, there is a section on brain development and on the role of experi
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• Cognitive Science
  ...telligence (AI), the branch of computer science concerned with intelligent systems. [[Ideal]]ly in cognitive science, computational models and psychological e ...psychology, neuroscience is often theoretical as well as experimental, and theory development is frequently aided by developing computational models of the [
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• Dimensions
  ...netrate themselves and the physical [[planet]] in which we live, the solar systems, and all the physical [[structure]]s of the [[universe]]. This interpenetra ...[[shamans|shaman]]ic and traditional [[myth]]ological ideas of a vertical world-axis; for example a [[cosmic]] mountain, tree, or pole or a philosophical c
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• ACIM Preface
  ...s]]. In general, they had considerable investment in the [[values]] of the world. Their lives were hardly in accord with anything that the Course advocates. <blockquote>Psychologist, educator, conservative in theory and [[atheistic]] in belief, I was working in a prestigious and highly [[ac
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• Phase Change
  ...an extremely large number of particles in a system, and does not appear in systems that are too small. Often also ''magnetic'' phases are used as the basis of a theory, and for introductory motivation. However, usually these are similar to the
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• 2001-04-21-A Little Talk
  ...reasing the spiritual capacity then of the individual and subsequently the world ~ coming [[home]] then and [[discussing]] the experiences that were had in ..."I know that I know," it is THIS of which you speak. When you talk about [[theory]], [[facts]], [[philosophy]] and [[cosmology]], you also are sharing what y
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• The Sciences
  ..., a large number of hypotheses may be logically bound together by a single theory. A ''[[physical law]]'' or ''law of nature'' is a scientific generalization ...subject of the field of study. Unlike a mathematical proof, a scientific theory is [[empirical]], and is always open to [[falsifiability|falsification]], i
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• Information science
  Not to be confused with [[informatics]] or [[information theory]]. ...g all other subsystems of society." <ref>Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems</ref> Within information science, attention has been given in recent years
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 11
  ...cause it extends their spontaneous creativity. "Revolutionary" ideology is theory which has been recuperated by the authorities. Words exist as the frontier ...surd force -- all the more absurd for being part of the rationality of the world, and seeming incontestable -- keeps me jumping in an effort to reach a soli
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