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• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  [[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Philosophy.jpg|right|frame]] ...ilosophy reference shelf. Lauded for its clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects, the Encyclopedia has earned its place
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• Philosopher's Index
  ...erial on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. (UP TO 4 SIMULTANEOUS USERS) [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Linguistics
  ...ambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521559676 Cambridge Ency. of Language]</center><center>by [[David Crystal]]</center>]] ...]] is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds ([[phone]]s), non-speech sounds, and how they are produced an
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• Meaning
  *1. Present participle of mean. ...mbolic value of something. b. The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
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• JSTOR
  Archived collection of electronic journals. ...ography, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Statistics.
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• Semantics
  *1 : the [[study]] of [[meanings]]: ...cal]] [[study]] and the classification of [[changes]] in the signification of [[words]] or [[forms]] viewed as factors in [[linguistic]] [[development]]
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• Intellect
  ...an of training and [[culture]] who cares little for the ordinary pleasures of sense. ...o grasp a situation. (the word as a synonym for "news" is journalese) In [[philosophy]] the "intellect" is contrasted with the senses and the will; it sifts and
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• Context
  ...t, background or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of [[Context]], follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Categor
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• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
  ...com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t179 '''''Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages'''''] ...ristendom]], the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of [[Islam]] and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.
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• Eloquence
  ...[[power]] of expressing strong [[emotion]]s in striking and appropriate [[language]], thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for wr ...],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemosyne]]) being the Muse of epic poetry and eloquence.
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• Language of birds-guenon
  ...superior stages, which is, as a rule, the essential and primordial purpose of every rite" (Guenon, "La Langue des oiseaux," p. 670). Danielou 4, fn. 9 [h [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  ...og.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t214 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'''''] ...ry]], [[religion]], folk customs, superstitions, science and technology, [[philosophy]], and popular [[culture]].
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• Prose
  ...straightforward, being in prose, contraction of proversus, past participle of provertere to turn forward, from pro- forward + vertere to turn *1 a : the ordinary [[language]] people use in [[speaking]] or [[writing]]
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• Cosmic
  ...g "order, orderly arrangement, ornaments," and is the antithetical concept of [[chaos]]. The word [[cosmetics]] originates from the same root. == Philosophy ==
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• Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  ...]]s, cross-cultural studies, social theories, and the [[value]] of human [[language]] for [[symbol]]ic [[communication]].
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• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  ...ilm, [[Religion]], [[Theater]]. One of five databases that make up the Web of Science.
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• Concepts
  ...ent of a [[sentence]]. Unlike [[perception]]s, which are particular images of individual objects, concepts cannot be visualized. Because they are not the <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Thought]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?tit
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• Proposition
  *2 a : an [[expression]] in [[language]] or signs of something that can be believed, doubted, or denied or is either [[true]] or :b : the objective [[meaning]] of a proposition
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• ARTFL Project
  ...ude [[literary criticism]], [[biology]], [[history]], [[economics]], and [[philosophy]]. ...the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
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• Oxford Companion to the Mind
  ...in scanning, and artificial intelligence — with contributions from a range of specialists. In all, there are over 300 contributors from the world's leadi
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...alism] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy postmodern philosophy]. ...Derrida was said to "leave behind a legacy of himself as the 'originator' of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction deconstruction]."
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ..., and logical problems, '''20th-century philosophy''' was set for a series of attempts variously to reform, preserve, alter, abolish, previously conceive ...tive linguistics]], rich [[literature|literary]] output, and the emergence of the [[Film|motion picture]] as an art form greatly enriched philosophical s
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• Rhetoric
  ...the art of persuasion, and many other things related to the application of language. ...ffering purposes, and varied widely in what it included. And yet, for most of its history it has maintained its fundamental [[character]] as a [[discipli
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• Enlighten
  Possibly inlighten (14th c.: see sense 4) was a secondary form of inlight <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Enlightenment''''', follow '''''[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.
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• Statement
  :b : a report of [[facts]] or opinions *2 : the [[act]] or [[process]] of stating or presenting [[orally]] or on [[paper]]
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• 0:13 Acknowledgement
  ...o be presented. We may resort to pure [[revelation]] only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous [[expression]] by the human mind. ...rawing upon our own superior knowledge of the [[reality]] and [[divinity]] of the Paradise Deities and their [[transcendent]] [[Havona|residential univer
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• 103:1 Philosophy of Religion
  ...[[unique]] and wholly [[different]] from the [[religious]] [[philosophy]] of all other [[human being]]s. ...igious]] [[experience]] touching the matters concerned in their similarity of philosophic religious [[interpretation]].
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• German Philosophy
  ...osophy|analytic]] and [[continental philosophy|continental]] traditions in philosophy for centuries, from [[Leibniz]] through [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[G.W.F. He ...ce, but nothing else, but we can never know the world from the “standpoint of nowhere” and therefore we can never know the world in its entirety, neith
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• Quiescent
  [[Latin]] quiescent-, quiescens, present participle of quiescere to become quiet, rest, from quies ...is a [[Latin]]-derived [[English]] language noun referring to a [[state]] of [[being]] quiet, still, at rest, dormant, inactive. Its adjectival form is
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• Systems Theory
  ...ted in other fields, such as in the structural functionalist [[sociology]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons Talcott Parsons] and Niklas ...bniz Leibniz] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Cusa Nicholas of Cusa's] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Docta_Ignorantia coincidentia opp
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• Secondary Corpus
  ...h the [[language]]s, [[literature]], [[history]], [[art]], and all aspects of the ancient [[Mediterranean]] world. The study of the Universe integrating [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]].
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• Transcripts
  ...he [[proceedings]] of a [[court]] hearing. It can also mean the conversion of a written [[source]] into another [[medium]], such as scanning books and ma ...ound]]s of [[human]] [[speech]] to special written [[symbols]] using a set of exact [[rule]]s, so that these sounds can be reproduced later.''
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• Truth
  <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Truth]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title *2: a (1) : the state of [[being]] the case : [[fact]] (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : [[actuality]] (3) often capitalized : a
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...y. In short, it is the recognition that the same traits appear in entities of many different sizes, from one man to the entire human population. ...and &#x03bc;&#x03b9;&#x03ba;&#x03c1;&#x03bf;- "Micro-", which are [[Greek language|Greek]] respectively for "large" and "small", and the word [[Cosmos|&#x03ba
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• Etymology
  ...word. For example, [[Latin]] candidus, which means "white", is the etymon of English candid. ...tracing it and its cognates to a common [[ancestral]] form in an ancestral language.
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• Abstraction
  ...ommunicate]] their solutions with the computer in some particular computer language. ...might be specified to six levels, as in Douglas Hofstadter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Esc
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• 121:6 The Hebrew Religion
  ...ern and Western schools] of [[Hebrew]] thought, [[Jerusalem]] and the rest of the [[Occident]] and the [[Levant]] in general adopted the Western Jewish o ...[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s Christian [[cult]] toward [[the West]] instead of toward [[the East]].
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• Transcendental
  ...[Ancient Philosophy]], one in [[Medieval Philosophy]], and one in [[Modern Philosophy]]. ...non-material self-consciousness that is outside of the world. Philosophies of [[immanence]] such as [[stoicism]], [[Spinoza]], [[Deleuze]] or ''[[panthei
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• Universal
  ...ture]], could be considered as universal. The 1948 [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] is inspired by such principles. ...rious domains of application, relativism does not necessarily apply to all of them.
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• Chastity
  ...] "[[pure]]". The words entered the [[English]] language around the middle of the 13th century; at that time they meant slightly [[different]] [[things]] *1 : the [[quality]] or [[state]] of being chaste: as
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• Semiotics
  ...[[individual]]ly and grouped into sign [[system]]s. It includes the study of how [[meaning]] is constructed and understood. ...by the [[Vienna Circle]] and presented in their International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, in which the [[author]]s agreed on breaking the field, whi
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• Error
  ...of the [[Latin]] word error is "wandering" or "straying". To the contrary of an [[illusion]], an error or a mistake can sometimes be dispelled through [ <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Error''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cat
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• Presence
  # The [[fact]] or condition of being present. # The part of [[space]] within one's immediate vicinity.
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• Classics
  ...tudy in the humanities. The word "Classics" also refers to the literature of that period. ...he eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Western Philosophy
  ...[[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Oriental philosophies]] and the varieties of indigenous philosophies. ...versal]] [[knowledge]] claims in [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]], [[natural philosophy]], [[music]], and many other subjects as indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Ari
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• Worship
  ...r what [[Sociology|sociologists]] call a ''[[cult|cultus]]'', the [[body]] of [[practice]]s and [[tradition]]s that correspond to a [[religion]]. ...uildings specially constructed for the [[purpose]], referred to as a place of worship. Most religions place an emphasis on regular worship and many organ
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• Entity
  ...rom Latin ent-, ens [[existing]] [[thing]], from coined present participle of esse (see Essence) to be :b : the existence of a thing as contrasted with its [[attribute]]s
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• Connotation
  *1 a : the suggesting of a [[meaning]] by a [[word]] apart from the [[thing]] it explicitly names or ...thing suggested by a [[word]] or [[thing]] : implication <the connotations of comfort that surrounded that old chair>
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• The Arts
  ...tistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''the Arts''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...circumstances were further enhanced by the [[tolerant]] [[political]] rule of the [[Mediterranean]] world by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident# ...religious]] culture a [[Hebrew]] of the Hebrews, proclaimed the [[gospel]] of a Jewish [[Messiah]] in the [[Greek]] tongue, while he himself was a [[Roma
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