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• History of Ideas
  ...erdisciplinary research in the [[history of philosophy]], the [[history of science]], or the [[history of literature]]. In [[Sweden]], the history of ideas ha ...ejoy pursued the history of ideas. The first chapter/lecture of Lovejoy's book ''[[The Great Chain of Being]]'' lays out a general overview of what is int
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• Process philosophy
  ...owledge]] and a [[theory]] of knowledge possible, as it was thought that a science of something in [[becoming]] was an impossible feat to achieve. ...o [[facilitate]] [[discussions]] among [[religion]], [[philosophy]], and [[science]].
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• Mundane
  ...], are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. In [[science fiction]] fandom and related fandoms the term is used to refer, sometimes d ...his 1980 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Adept Apprentice Adept] book series—where much of the plot is dependent upon [[tension]] between a [[m
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• Utopian
  ...(book) Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia], a [[book]] written in 1516 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More Sir Tho ...ealistic society. This [[interpretation]] is bolstered by the title of the book and nation, and its apparent equivocation between the Greek for "no place"
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• Participation
  '''Participation''' in [[social science]] is an umbrella term including different means for the public to directly .../www.zmag.org/books/pareconv/Chapter2.htm#_VPID_22 Participatory Economics Book Page (Participatory Decision Making)]
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• Utopia
  ...(book) Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia], a [[book]] [[written]] in 1516 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More Sir ...]] [[society]]. This [[interpretation]] is bolstered by the title of the [[book]] and nation, and its apparent [[confusion]] between the Greek for "no plac
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• Higher power
  ...itual Experience' appendix of Alcoholics Anonymous (also known as the "Big Book"). ...group, [[Nature]], [[consciousness]], existential [[freedom]], [[God]], [[science]], [[Buddha]]. It is frequently stipulated that as long as a higher power i
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• Synchronization
  [[Computer science]] (In computer science, especially parallel computing, synchronisation refers to the coordination ...address book on a telephone might need to be synchronized with an address book on a computer.
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• Amorality
  ...[creation]] is [[good]], as stated in The [[Book of Genesis]]. In modern [[science]], however, the matter of the [[universe]] is often observed amorally for o
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• Teleportation
  ...irst formal use of the [[word]] occurred in the second chapter of his 1931 book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo! ''Lo!'']: <blockquote>Mostly in this [[book]] I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory [[fo
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• Cosmopolis
  ...or a [[history]] of this [[idea]] that is served well by Stephen Toulmin's book, '''''Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity''''' ISBN 0226808386 (see The [[science]] or [[theory]] of the universe as an ordered whole, and of the general [[l
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• Holism
  ...onism]] is sometimes seen as the [[opposite]] of holism. Reductionism in [[science]] says that a [[complex]] system can be explained by reduction to its funda ...lly comes later in the development of a scientist or in the development of science."
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• 2013-06-19-Revelatory Progress
  ===='''''[[Urantia Book]]'''''==== ...chings? We’d like to know if there is something very meaningful from this book that is going on in this world today.</i>
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• Heart
  ...at]], symbolising [[truth]], in the judgment of the dead in the Egyptian ''Book of the Dead''. Egyptian sources do not actually reveal whether the heart ha ...rform these miraculous signs of mine among them'" (Exodus 10:1). In the [[Book of Jeremiah]] 17:9, it is written that the Lord is the judge who "tries" th
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• Structure
  ...Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]'', is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and po ...ly in logic and mathematics but in the fields that apply them, as computer science, and in the studies that reflect on them, as philosophy and especially the
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• Energy
  ...tance from the centre of the Earth. (Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science ISBN 0415124107 ...st to use the term "energy" instead of vis viva, in its modern sense. (The Science of Energy - a Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain ISBN
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• Gale
  ...lly in the areas of [[religion]], [[history]] and [[Social Sciences|social science]]; and its online databases commonly available in schools and libraries. Fo ..., with hundreds of books in print in the Western, [[Romance]], Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy [[genre]]s. Gale also sells into the K-12 market with se
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• Reference
  ...out the subject. Such items are often listed at the end of an article or [[book]] in a section marked "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography Bibliogr ==Library science==
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• Prediction
  Outside the rigorous [[context]] of [[science]], prediction is often confused with informed guess or opinion. ==Anticipatory science forecasts==
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• Paradigm
  ...hly- meaning "example") (ˈpærədaɪm) has been used in [[linguistics]] and [[science]] to describe distinct [[concepts]]. From the 1960s, the word has referred to thought pattern in any [[science|scientific]] [[discipline]] or other epistemological context. The Merriam-W
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