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• Physics
  ...ws set down by the field. Physics relies heavily on [[mathematics]] as the logical framework for formulation and quantification of principles. ...nt of [[thermodynamics]], and the [[quantum mechanics|quantum mechanical]] model of atomic and subatomic physics.
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• Consistent
  ...e semantic definition states that a [[theory]] is consistent if it has a [[model]]; this is the sense used in traditional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ter ...often done in a purely syntactical way, without any need to reference some model of the logic. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-elimination cut-elimin
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• Mode
  ...n] a : [[mood]] 1 b : the modal [[form]] of the assertion or denial of a [[logical]] [[proposition]] ...meaning]] is conceived as an [[effect]] of a set of signs. In the Peircean model, a reference is made to an object when the sign (or representamen) is [[int
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• 2013-10-21-Organization, Purpose, and Life
  ...ults of evolution, at least the ones we can appreciate in this sphere, are logical. Nature organizes itself to express its laws more faithfully. ...tes must be the most glorious being, the goal to be reached and the origin-model of what is expected at the end of evolution. This is God, our universal Fat
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• Formula
  :d : a combination of signs in a [[logical]] calculus ...a particular problem - for example using the equation of a sine curve to [[model]] the [[motion|movement]] of the tides in a bay. In all cases however, form
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• Deduction
  ...tarts with a particular observation that is believed to be a demonstrative model for a truth or principle that is assumed to apply generally. ...]], an approach to proof theory that attempts to provide a formal model of logical reasoning as it "naturally" occurs.
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• Circuitry
  ...[operational amplifier]] as basic electronic components; this allows us to model frequency dependent [[Negative resistance|negative resistors]], [[gyrator]] ...s take an discrete values, which are not dependent upon time, to represent logical and numeric values. These values represent the information that is being p
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• Rational
  ...als are not important in definition of rationality, it really only demands logical consistency in choice making. See [[rational choice theory]]. ...r organizations are "really" rational, as well as whether it make sense to model them as such in formal models. Some have argued that a kind of [[bounded ra
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• Dominate
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian Diocletian], who is therefore a [[logical]] [[choice]] as the first ruler of the 'early' dominate. Historian David Po ...rably described by Marcus, whereby the emperor sought to show himself as a model of correct aristocratic deportment, had given way to a style in which the e
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• Maturity
  Psychologist B.W. Roberts explains that in an explicit model of [[personality]], one's personality must be viewed from both the [[perspe ...ways to judge if a person is mature include [[rational]] [[thinking]] and logical explanation in solving a problem, and the [[art]] of [[reason]]ing while de
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• Omniscience
  *Instead of producing a parallel model in God's own infallible mind of the future contingent actions of a free age ...be forced to swerve to avoid a collision — this is assuming each player is logical and follows optimal [[strategy]].[8]
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• Logic
  * '''[[Informal logic]]''' is the study of [[natural language]] [[Logical argument|arguments]]. The study of [[fallacies]] is an especially importan ...terior Analytics]]''. We will see later that in many definitions of logic, logical inference and inference with purely formal content are the same. This does
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• Chamber 2
  ...d the compelling features of Source Reality through the application of the logical mind and the persistent belief in the language of limitation that flows fro The hierarchy, through the purveyance of an evolution/saviorship model of existence, has attempted to guide the development of all entities throug
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• Natural Sciences
  Aside from the logical and mathematical sciences, there are three great branches of ''natural scie ...ws set down by the field. Physics relies heavily on [[mathematics]] as the logical framework for formulation and quantification of principles.
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• Worldview
  ...natural science. They view the [[scientific method]] as the most reliable model for building an [[understanding]] of the world. ...hat, even having chosen axioms not [[everything]] that was true in a given logical system could be proven. Some philosophers believe the [[problems]] extend t
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• Dialogue
  Plato further simplified the form and reduced it to pure [[Logical argument|argumentative]] conversation, while leaving intact the amusing ele ...elebrated. Italian writers of collections of dialogues, following Plato's model, include [[Torquato Tasso]] ([[1586]]), [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1632
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• The Universal Schoolhouse
  the industrial revolution. The assembly-line model is lodged deeply in the educational model. We agree that the spiritual [[dimension]] is an important
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• Knowledge Representation
  ...f logic operations, such as [[truth table]]s, which were used to study and model Boolean logic, for example. [[Spreadsheet]]s are yet another tabular repres ...ach node represents a [[concept]] and arcs are used to define [[Relational model|relation]]s between the concepts.
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• Cybernetics
  ...an environment. On the other hand cybernetic factory can be [[mathematical model|modeled]] as a control system. ...gulating devices. Jakob von Uexküll applied the feedback mechanism via his model of functional cycle (Funktionskreis) in order to explain [[animal]] [[behav
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• Intelligence
  ...like condemning the auto industry by criticizing the performance of the [[Model T]]. ...telligences. He argues that psychometric tests address only linguistic and logical plus some aspects of spatial intelligence; other forms have been entirely i
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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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• 2017-10-23-New Era Transition 27
  ...is meaningful to ask respectful questions; it seems to be a reasonable and logical question that you would ask, “What are the purposes that you bring to us ...ey want or need, and that you then come to them and present them with very logical, rational reasons for selecting the product that you have. What you will f
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• Algorithm
  ...ogical outcomes "true" and "false" Kleene also proposes the use of a third logical symbol "u" — undecided (Kleene 1952:326) — thus an algorithm will alway * '''Logical''': An algorithm may be viewed as controlled logical deduction. This notion may be expressed as: '''Algorithm = logic + control'
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• Synchronicity
  *[https://www.feelthevibe.com/synchronicity.pdf Murakami Model of Synchronicity]
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 2
  ...of human relationships envisaged is one based upon precisely this economic model, which, because it is obsolete, is available at a knock-down price. Who can ...consumer society has brought the old expression 'see things my way' to its logical conclusion: whichever way you look, you see nothing but things.
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...ons that are primarily of philosophical interest, such as the structure of logical arguments, the constitution of the world, and the divisions of being. ...ts a creation out of nothing. Since the time of Aristotle it was held that logical reasoning could only prove the existence of a general form of immortality,
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• 1993-01-05-Coming Materializations
  In the third phase, such a person may [[progress]] to the level of [[logical]] [[integrity]], intellectual integrity, but there stagnates in consequence ...as being constituted by the [[coordination]] of [[ideas]], [[decisions]], logical [[ideals]] and divine [[truth]]. And as you read some of the other [[refere
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• Communication
  In a simplistic model, information or content (e.g. a message in natural language) is sent in som ...is called a [[speech act]]. A speech act typically follows a variation of logical means of delivery. The most common of these, and perhaps the best, is the d
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• Ken Wilber
  ...y, Spirituality'', 1995, p. 35-78) These tenets form the basis of Wilber's model of manifest reality. Beyond this, Wilber's view is that the totality of man ...es' and 'all types'. These are the five irreducible categories of Wilber's model of manifest existence. In order for an account of the Kosmos to be complete
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• 2004-12-26-Review Of Year, Fulfilling Life Plan
  ...ecting Time, these my friends, are simply small, necessary, reasonable and logical increments of development that are essential for the reclamation or the hea ...f Jesus in Part IV of the Urantia Book, are your examples; he is your role model; he is your big brother. He is the one to call upon when you succumb to neg
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• 2002-09-22-Power of God
  ...ur being, before us, and before our [[heavenly Father]]. We know we have a model and we know we have a script and we know we have a future that is unbridled ...with a back-ground in [[medicine]] for so many years, it seemed like the [[logical]] place. And for instance, a lady, last week, had to bring all five of her
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