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• Retribution
  '''Retributive''' [[justice]] is a [[theory]] of justice that considers that [[punishment]], if [[proportionate]], is a ...of Hammurabi]. Many other [[documents]] [[reflect]] this [[value]] in the world's [[cultures]]. However, the [[judgment]] of whether a punishment is approp
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• Complexity
  The approaches which em[[body]] [[concepts]] of systems, multiple elements, multiple relational regimes, and state spaces might be ...sometimes large, but smaller, number of relationships between elements in systems where constraints (related to correlation of otherwise independent elements
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• Inference
  * [[Artificial intelligence]] researchers develop automated inference systems. AI systems first provided automated logical inference and these were once extremely po
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• Worldview
  German, from '''''Welt''''' world + '''''Anschauung''''' view *1: a comprehensive [[conception]] or apprehension of the world especially from a specific [[standpoint]]
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...tinction between the [[fact]] of evolution, the path of evolution, and the theory or mechanism of evolution. ...igin of Species (1859), the groundbreaking work in which he introduced his theory. Darwin was not the first to argue for the fact of evolution, but by marsha
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• Conservation
  ...edings that resulted sought to bridge a gap existing at the time between [[theory]] in [[ecology]] and [[population]] [[biology]] on the one hand and conserv The rapid decline of established [[biological]] [[systems]] around the world means that conservation biology is often referred to as a "[[Discipline]] w
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• Library Science
  ...e the needs of select user groups, how people interact with classification systems and technology, how information is acquired, evaluated and applied by peopl ...es in library science typically include Collection management, Information Systems and Technology, Cataloging and classification, Preservation, Reference, Sta
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• Semiotics
  ...the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organi Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted (see modality). This [[process]
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• Selfhood
  * 1. That [[physical]] systems are subordinate. * 2. That [[intellectual]] systems are co-ordinate.
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• 195:2 The Roman Influence
  ...vored]] [[Christianity]] in that [[Rome]] brought into the whole [[Western world]] a new [[tolerance]] for [[strange]] [[languages]], peoples, and even [[re ...hilosophize their religion, to [[co-ordinate]] its [[ideas]] and [[Systems theory|systematize]] its [[ideals]], to adapt [[religious]] [[practices]] to the e
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• 112:2 The Self
  *1. That [[physical]] systems are subordinate. *2. That [[intellectual]] systems are [[co-ordinate]].
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• Philology
  ..., [[rhetoric]], [[history]], [[interpretation]] of authors, and [[critical theory|critical traditions]] associated with a given language. ...nguage, read a Spanish-language newspaper and know what is going on in the world. Although not every word is directly translatable, the overall meaning of t
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• Stereotype
  ...vented by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_Didot Firmin Didot] in the world of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing printing]; it was originally a d ...general [[types]] and sub-types. Stereotypes consist of [[hierarchical]] [[systems]] consisting of broad and specific [[groups]] being the general types and s
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• Color
  ...century, initially within a partisan controversy around [[Isaac Newton]]'s theory of color (''Opticks'', 1704) and the nature of so-called [[primary color]]s ...sical world. This has led to a number of inaccuracies in traditional color theory principles that are not always remedied in modern formulations.
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• Mathematics
  ...ers on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics axiomatic systems in the late 19th century], it has become customary to view mathematical [[r ...such as [[statistics]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory game theory]. Mathematicians also engage in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_mathema
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• Biology
  .... Four unifying principles form the foundation of modern biology: [[cell theory]], [[evolution]], [[genetics]] and [[homeostasis]]. ...w a standard subject of instruction at schools and universities around the world, and over a million papers are published annually in a wide array of biolog
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• Research
  ...ment of human [[knowledge]] on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the [[universe]]. Research can use the [[scientific method]], but need ...d theories for the explanation of the [[nature]] and the properties of the world around us. It makes practical applications possible. Scientific research is
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• Hegemony
  ...alterns of state' include entities like media, religious groups, education systems, and even entertainment, (like movies and music) that influence participant ...d hegemony as a discursive strategy of combining principles from different systems of thought into one coherent [[ideology]]. Drawing on their ideas, critic
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• Integral Movement
  ...s given a further definition, being made synonymous with Wilber's [[AQAL]] theory [https://aqaljournal.integralinstitute.org/public/Pdf/AQAL_Glossary_01-27-0 ...n of [[consciousness]] has also become a central theme in much of integral theory [https://integral-review.org/current_issue/documents/Gidley,%20Evolution%20
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• Quantity
  ...easurements of quantities, the units of measurements, number and numbering systems, the types of numbers and their relations to each other as numerical ratios In his [[Euclid's_Elements|Elements]], [[Euclid]] developed the theory of ratios of magnitudes without studying the nature of magnitudes, as Archi
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