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• Intention
  ...using such phrases as "reference to a content", the "direction towards an object" and "the immanent objectivity". ...f the mind to an object; a conception formed by directing the mind to some object; a general concept. first intentions, primary conceptions of things, formed
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• Philosophy
  ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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• Existence
  ...istence''' is the world of which we are aware through our senses, but in [[philosophy]] the word has a more specialized [[meaning]], and is often contrasted with In the western [[tradition]] of philosophy, the first comprehensive treatments of the subject are from Plato's ''Phaed
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• Life
  *13: a property (as resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate substance or object resembling the animate [[quality]] of a living being In [[philosophy]] and [[religion]], the [[conception]] of life and its [[nature]] varies. B
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• Reality
  In the strict sense of western [[philosophy]], there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. T According to the less realist trends in [[philosophy]], such as [[postmodernism]]/[[post-structuralism]], [[truth]] is subjectiv
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...ama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysics]], [[phenomenology]], [[et ...ophical component. Buddhism is founded on the rejection of certain [[Hindu philosophy|orthodox]] philosophical concepts, in which the Buddha had been instructed
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...he modern problematic of dualism. Kant is especially important here as his philosophy is the doorway through which the spirit of the new mode of philosophical th ...d with the ideas to be outlined it is our belief that the field of process philosophy can advance itself by broadening its historical base and its scope of inqui
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• Morale
  ...or which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed and [[trained]], the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fi ...phrase that means, roughly, the ''Morale'' of the/a unit, but also a core philosophy within the [[foundation]] of both organizations. In the USMC it is a phrase
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• Knowledge Representation
  Using frames for [[expert systems]] is an application of [[object-oriented]] programming, with [[inheritance]] of features described by the " Frame representations are object-centered in the same sense as [[semantic network]]s are: All the facts and
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...with Alfred North Whitehead and his interpreters only, and reveals process philosophy to be a broader and richer tradition than has generally been acknowledged. Keywords— process philosophy, Schelling, Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, ethics, art, being.
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• Metaphysics
  '''Metaphysics''' is the branch of [[philosophy]] investigating principles of [[reality]] transcending those of any particu ...ed collections. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there "first philosophy."
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• Adolf Harnack and the Search for Missing Christianity
  ...was a simple message that was subsequently obscured, particularly by the [[philosophy]], [[dogma]], and metaphysics of the post-apostolic and Nicean<!--why not N ...tical scrutiny of [[reason]] in the same way that we would treat any other object of examination. In summary we could say that where the church regarded the
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between [[philosophy]] ([[reason]]) and the religious teachings of [[Islam]] ([[faith]]). The attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult because there are no clear preconditions. Philosophers typical
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• Value theory
  ...theorists believe that this conception of value has relevance to all of [[philosophy]], [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[psychology]] as well as Environmental ...objectives or as a means to objectives already held, roughly similar to an object with relative intrinsic value.
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• Darkness
  A dark object reflects fewer visible [[photons]] than other objects, and therefore appear ...that absorb visible light reemit it as infrared light.[2] So, although an object may appear dark, it is likely bright at a frequency that a [[human being]]
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• Desire
  '''Desire''' is a sense of longing for a [[person]] or object or [[hope|hoping]] for an outcome. The same sense is expressed by [[emotion ==In philosophy==
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• Understanding
  ...s able to think about it and use [[concepts]] to deal adequately with that object. ...est, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of [[philosophy]], [[cosmology]], and [[divinity]].
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• Hope
  :c. An object of hope; that which is hoped for. ...proach incorporates contributions from [[psychology]], [[anthropology]], [[philosophy]] and [[theology]] as well as classical and contemporary [[literature]] and
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• Entanglement
  ...of the constituting objects are [[Connected|linked]] together so that one object can no longer be adequately described without full mention of its counterpa ...some [[physical]] intervention is made to [[measure]] an observable of the object in question. In the singlet state of two spin, it is equally likely that an
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• Illuminate
  :c. To direct a beam of any kind of radiation at (an object or region): used esp. of radio waves and microwaves in connection with rada ...e discharge source..provided a beam of electrons which could illuminate an object such as an aperture or a wire grid.
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