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• David Ray Griffin
  ...y]] and a proponent of [[9/11 conspiracy theories]] that implicate members of the United States government in the attacks.[https://www.washingtonpost.com ...ioning the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush Administration]]'s account of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].
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• Probability
  ...he likelihood of [[potential]] [[events]] and the underlying [[mechanics]] of [[complex]] [[systems]]. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Probability''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?tit
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• Triad
  *1: a [[union]] or [[group]] of [[three]] : [[trinity]] ...of a root with its third and fifth and constituting the [[harmonic]] basis of tonal [[music]]
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• Retribution
  '''Retributive''' [[justice]] is a [[theory]] of justice that considers that [[punishment]], if [[proportionate]], is a [[mo ...ct]] this [[value]] in the world's [[cultures]]. However, the [[judgment]] of whether a punishment is appropriately severe can vary greatly between cultu
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• Duality
  ...nal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in general applications of metaphysical and philosophical [[discourse]]. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Duality''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=C
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• 195:2 The Roman Influence
  ...reek]] [[culture]], putting [[representative]] [[government]] in the place of government by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#Ancient_Athens lot]. ...ttle for either [[art]] or [[religion]], but he was unusually [[tolerant]] of both.
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• Citizen
  ...enship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment of their [[community]] through economic participation, public service, [[volun <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Citizenship''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?tit
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• Isaac Newton
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz Gottfried Leibniz] for the invention of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus calculus]. ...ientists of the superiority of Newtonian mechanics over the earlier system of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes Descartes].
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• Pseudo-science
  ...nt among [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science philosophers of science] and among commentators in the scientific [[community]] about wheth ...ility requirement or substantially deviates from other fundamental aspects of the [[scientific method]].[3][14][15][16][17][18]
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• Selfhood
  It would be helpful in the [[study]] of '''selfhood''' to remember: In all [[concepts]] of selfhood it should be recognized that the [[fact]] of life comes first, its evaluation or [[interpretation]] later. The [[human]]
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• Cultural Formation
  ...to become unique, or undergoes stages through which differentiated facets of a person's life tend toward becoming a more indivisible whole. ==Theory of developmental stages==
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• Objectivity
  The [[quality]] or [[character]] of being '''objective'''; (in later use) esp. the ability to consider or repre ...than created. While such formulations capture the basic [[intuitive]] idea of objectivity, neither is without controversy.
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• Philosophy
  ...s in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in its historical context? To what degree can philosophical texts ...es arrived at through observation), and even through [[leap of faith|leaps of faith]], hope and inheritance (such as the [[supernatural|supernaturalist]]
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• Mindstream
  ...[continuum]]" ([[Sanskrit]]: saṃtāna) of [[awareness]]. There are a number of terms in the Buddhist literature that may well be rendered "mindstream". Th ...]. However, what we call the mental and the material occurs in a [[unity]] of organization. [[Organization]] is something [[dynamic]]."
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• Plausible
  ...in]] plausibilis [[worthy]] of [[applause]], from plausus, past participle of plaudere *3: [[appearing]] [[worthy]] of [[belief]] <the [[argument]] was both powerful and plausible>
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• Criticism
  ...scribe]] an adherent of a position disagreeing with or opposing the object of criticism. ...egularly [[judge]] or interpret performances or other works (such as those of artists, scientists, musicians, or actors), and typically publish their obs
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• Semiotics
  ...[[individual]]ly and grouped into sign [[system]]s. It includes the study of how [[meaning]] is constructed and understood. ...by the [[Vienna Circle]] and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the [[author]]s agreed on breaking the field, whi
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• Theodicy
  ...ustify the ways of [[God]] to men’. from F. théodicée, the title of a work of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz Leibniz] (1710), f. Gr. - ...odices''' ever framed by [[human]] ingenuity, before and since the attempt of the celebrated Leibnitz.
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• 112:2 The Self
  112:2.1 It would be helpful in the [[study]] of [[selfhood]] to remember: ...[[concepts]] of [[selfhood]] it should be [[recognized]] that the [[fact]] of life comes first, its [[evaluation]] or [[interpretation]] later. The [[hum
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• Continuum
  ...nuum rather than as separate entities. A [[spectrum]] in [[physics]] (e.g. of light) is often termed either a 'continuous spectrum' (energy at all wavele In contrast, the [[quantum theory]] includes [[quanta]], which are distinguished from continuous amounts.
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