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• Inquiry
  ...h the [[normative science]] of [[logic]]. In its inception, the pragmatic model or theory of inquiry was extracted by Peirce from its raw materials in clas ...that it provides us with doubly instructive exercises in the use of his [[logical graph]]s, taken at the level of his so-called '[[alpha graph]]s'.
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• Existence
  ...atical predicate, but philosophers have long disputed whether it is also a logical predicate. Some philosophers claim that it predicates something, and has t ...f atoms but rather that triangles exist within a particular [[mathematical model]].
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• Molecule
  ...803-1808) and [[Avogadro's law]] (1811), there was some resistance among [[logical positivism|positivists]] and physicists such as [[Ernst Mach|Mach]], [[Ludw ...the understanding of the [[chemical bond]]. The simplest molecules used as model systems since the early days of [[quantum chemistry]] are the [[hydrogen mo
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• Cognitive Science
  ...e of thinking in cognitive science, including connectionist theories which model thinking using artificial [[neural network]]s. ...ave proposed that the mind contains such mental representations as [[Logic|logical]] propositions, rules, [[concepts]], images, and analogies, and that it use
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• Learning
  [[Example]] can be a motivation for learning. [[Imitation]] of a [[role model]] is a natural mechanism for [[infant]]s and [[child]]ren, when learning fr
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• 2013-06-05-Q and A Session with Charles 3
  ...e said and begin to ask individual questions. Lead me and lead you into a logical, rational construct with this topic. ...Japan, and the Pacific area—even in China with its different governmental model—is still highly competitive. Competition causes separation; competition s
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• 2009-01-11-Living in These Changing Times
  ...or your future, for yourself and for your family, based upon a traditional model. Here in these current economic times that present so many people with dif ...You are of little use to your life when you are broken; your example and model for your children is detrimental. It is difficult to give up those things
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• 2014-08-01-New Era Conversations 27
  ...the first follower provides. That person, the first follower, becomes the model for all those who come along. It is important that the first models be org ...es. It will be some time yet before she and her group devise a conceptual model for implementing a new program that is socially sustainably based, but they
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• Determinism
  ...unbroken chain of prior occurrences, but a selectionistic or probabilistic model does not.[3][4] ...hin a tolerance. However, old western scientists believed if there are any logical connections found between an observed cause and effect, there must be also
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• The Sciences
  ...nce)|theory]]'', in the context of science, is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of certain natural phenomena. A t ...tional fields. Outside these conditions, Newton's Laws remain an excellent model of motion and gravity. Since general relativity accounts for all the same p
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• Scientific Method
  Another simplified model sometimes utilized to summarize scientific method is the "operational": ...ration (mathematics)|operation]]s, [[observation]]s, [[scientific modeling|model]]s, and a [[utility function]] for evaluating models.
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• Science
  [[Image:Bohr model.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Bohr model]] of the [[atom]], like many ideas in the [[history of science]], was at fi ...nce)|theory]]'', in the context of science, is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of certain natural phenomena. A t
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• Simplicity
  ...ience]]…is to cover the greatest possible number of empirical [[facts]] by logical deductions from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms (Einst ::d. simple structure ([[Statistics]]): a [[model]] in which numerous variables, showing various degrees of correlation, have
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• Chapter 7 - The Gifts of the Kingdom
  ...threatens its own existence, a state which it finds intolerable. Remaining logical but still insane, the ego resolves this completely insane dilemma in a comp ...f. The ego is a confusion in identification. Never having had a consistent model, it never developed consistently. It is the product of the misapplication o
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• Knowledge
  ...s R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel reviewed the pursuit of truth as determined by logical considerations. They reviewed ways of eliminating doubt and arriving at sta ...owledge Management theory and practice aligns two models: (i) the [[DIKW]] model, which places data, information, knowledge and [[wisdom]] into an increasin
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• 1998-11-08-Healing & Teaching
  ...e multi-dimensional fashion than you have been [[comfortable]] to see this model to this time, but it is more appropriately pictured in these multi-dimensio ...You usually have faith about things that are intangible, unprovable in a [[logical]] way. You can start with belief and as you develop faith moves from a mere
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• 2016-01-11-New Era Conversations 60
  ...d there is no one in the middle to lead them forward with any rational, or logical, or reasonable way to proceed. This situation offers us a tremendous oppor ...l would be more in-line with the six core values [than the] strict ‘father model.’ Would you like to respond to that?
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• Metaphysics
  .... The ancient Greeks did not draw a distinction between this use and their model for the [[cosmos]]. However, in modern use it addresses questions about the ...able'' or ''provable'' statements i.e. neither empirical observations nor logical arguments could prove metaphysical statements to be true or false. Hence,
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• Chakra
  ...bout the 11th century AD, and rapidly became widely popular. It is in this model where [[Kundalini]] is said to "rise" upward, piercing the various centers Traditional Chinese medicine also relies on a similar model of the human body as an [[energy]] system, except that it involves the circ
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• Guilt
  ...rik Simonsen; Davis, Roger E. (2002). "11. Psychopathy and the Five-Factor Model of Personality, Widiger and Lynam". Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and
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