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• Quantity
  ...attributes of things. Some quantities are such by their inner nature (as number), while others are functioning as states (properties, dimensions, attribute ...ons of quantity, [[magnitude (mathematics)|magnitude]] and multitude (or [[number]]), imply the principal distinction between continuity ([[continuum]]) and
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• Cain and Abel
  ...rg/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls]. Cain and Abel also appear in a number of other [[texts]], and the story is the subject of various [[interpretatio ...id-1st millennium BC South Arabian word qyn, meaning "metal smith". This [[theory]] would make the names merely descriptions of the roles they take in the [[
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• Consensus
  ...two standard deviations, or one, or a unanimity minus a certain tolerable number of dissenters. The following steps then operate both to check understanding ...odels of the military to be major obstacles. As they had not mastered game theory models they simply were not heard.
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• Fantasy
  ...eval studies). [[Work]] in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov Tzvetan Todorov], which e
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• Classification
  ...[[manuscript]]s, realia) according to their subject and allocating a call number to that [[information]] [[resource]]. Similar to classification systems use In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_theory Marxist theory], two basic class divisions owe to the [[fundamental]] [[economic]] [[struc
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• 19:6 Havona Natives
  ...ives] are the direct [[creation]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]], and their [[number]] is beyond the [[concept]] of your [[circumscribed]] [[minds]]. Neither is ...a will ever be entirely depleted of its natives. We have entertained the [[theory]] that Havoners will possibly cease entering the finaliter corps sometime d
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• Entanglement
  ...The property of entanglement was understood in the early days of [[quantum theory]], although not by that name. Quantum entanglement is at the heart of the E ...en [[particle]] will be observed to be spin-up or spin-down. Measuring any number of particles will result in an unpredictable series of measurements that wi
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• Mindstream
  ...ment "[[continuum]]" ([[Sanskrit]]: saṃtāna) of [[awareness]]. There are a number of terms in the Buddhist literature that may well be rendered "mindstream". ...permanent, unchanging, transmigrating entity, as the soul was in the atman-theory, but as an "essential series of individual and momentary consciousnesses,"
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• Computer Science
  ...allenges in implementing computations. For example, [[programming language theory]] studies approaches to describing computations, while [[computer programmi ...short history as a formal academic discipline, computer science has made a number of fundamental contributions to [[science]] and [[society]]. These include:
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• Spectrum
  ...e Goethe] in his ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours_(book) Theory of Colors]'' and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Schopen
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• Composition
  ==Composition Theory== ...n a science, experience handed down through art's history has bequeathed a number of principles which aid to successful composition:
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• Matrix
  ...of matrices depend on the order of the factors, unlike products of [[real number]]s, say, where [[commutativity|''c - d'' = ''d - c'' for any two numbers '' In the particular case of square matrices, matrices with equal number of columns and rows, more refined data are attached to matrices, notably th
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• Complexity
  ...the main goal of [[network science]]. In science there are at this time a number of approaches to characterizing complexity, many of which are reflected in ...ate spaces might be summarized as implying that complexity arises from the number of distinguishable relational regimes (and their associated [[state]] [[spa
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• Parent
  ...n egg donation], it is obvious who the mother is. However, it is used in a number of events such as legal battles where a person's maternity is challenged, w ...oposed by Robert Trivers in 1974 and extends the more general selfish gene theory and has been used to explain many observed [[biological]] [[phenomena]].[1]
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• Teamwork
  ...k" and that the word "teamwork" has been used "as a catchall to refer to a number of behavioral [[processes]] and emergent states."
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• Value theory
  '''Value theory''' investigates how people positively and negatively [[value]] [[things]] a ...h moral and natural goods are equally interesting to goodness and '''value theory''', which is more general in scope.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_the
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• Quantum Mechanics
  ...scription we can make of a [[system]] is its wavefunction, which is just a number varying between [[time]] and [[space|place]]. We can derive things from the ...uid at temperatures near absolute zero) is one well-known example. Quantum theory also provides accurate descriptions for many previously unexplained [[pheno
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• The Helianx Proposition/page 25
  A minority of the Council had recommended choosing one of their own number Until then, the whole plan had to remain a [[theory]],
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• Pulsation
  ...esulting from such pulse as detected in a superficial artery; also : the [[number]] of [[individual]] beats in a specified [[time]] period (as one minute) <a ...c function]. The sinc pulse is of some significance in signal-processing [[theory]] but cannot be produced by a real generator for [[reasons]] of [[causality
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• Eternal
  ...fer to a timeless existence altogether '''outside of time'''. There are a number of [[arguments for eternity]], by which proponents of the concept, principa The modern [[theory of relativity]] provides a physical description of the universe in which th
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