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• Actuality
  ...central themes of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle's] [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. With these two notions, Aristotle [[intends]] to pro ...derstood]] (indeed, if we do not take into account these multiple aspects, philosophy may lose some of its [[universal]] scope). In numerous passages of his Meta
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• Original
  *1. An object (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derive ...earch%26meta%3D&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original]
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• The Arts
  ...ion on surface patterning and local colour (meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colo ...ies. Some subjects in the Humanities are history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, women's studies.
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• 72:4 The Educational System
  ...atorical]] and [[musical]] contests, as well as those in [[science]] and [[philosophy]], occupy the [[attention]] of [[students]] from the lower social divisions ...functioning]] as the third or advisory [[legislative]] division. The chief object of [[education]] on this continent is to make every [[pupil]] a self-suppor
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• 2014-01-21-Mind and Spirit
  ...r will the profound character transformations, bringing them closer to the object of their worship – the Father, take place. Jesus expected that all His children/siblings on this earth adopted a philosophy of life based on sincere spiritual searching. He knew how fragile human wil
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• Ecstasy
  ...s or total lack of the awareness of surroundings and everything around the object. For instance, if one is concentrating on a physical task, then one might c [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Art
  ...ion on surface patterning and local colour (meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colo ...ects in the Humanities are [[history]], [[linguistics]], [[literature]], [[philosophy]], [[women's studies]].
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• Skepticism
  ..., systematic doubt, or criticism that is characteristic of skeptics . In [[philosophy]], skepticism refers more specifically to any one of several propositions. In classical philosophy, skepticism refers to the teachings and the traits of the ''Skeptikoi'', a
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• Classics
  ...language and literature, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, history and philosophy. It is sometimes known as '''Greats''' after the nickname for the final exa ...in the [[ancient Greek|Greek]] or [[classical Latin|Latin]] language. The object of this science is thus the Graeco-Roman, or Classical, world to the extent
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• Semiotics
  ...miosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered i ...hile semiotics is deeply concerned about non-linguistic signification</u>. Philosophy of language also bears a stronger connection to linguistics, while semiotic
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• Intention
  ...using such phrases as "reference to a content", the "direction towards an object" and "the immanent objectivity". ...f the mind to an object; a conception formed by directing the mind to some object; a general concept. first intentions, primary conceptions of things, formed
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• Philosophy
  ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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• Existence
  ...istence''' is the world of which we are aware through our senses, but in [[philosophy]] the word has a more specialized [[meaning]], and is often contrasted with In the western [[tradition]] of philosophy, the first comprehensive treatments of the subject are from Plato's ''Phaed
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• Life
  *13: a property (as resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate substance or object resembling the animate [[quality]] of a living being In [[philosophy]] and [[religion]], the [[conception]] of life and its [[nature]] varies. B
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• Reality
  In the strict sense of western [[philosophy]], there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. T According to the less realist trends in [[philosophy]], such as [[postmodernism]]/[[post-structuralism]], [[truth]] is subjectiv
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...ama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysics]], [[phenomenology]], [[et ...ophical component. Buddhism is founded on the rejection of certain [[Hindu philosophy|orthodox]] philosophical concepts, in which the Buddha had been instructed
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...he modern problematic of dualism. Kant is especially important here as his philosophy is the doorway through which the spirit of the new mode of philosophical th ...d with the ideas to be outlined it is our belief that the field of process philosophy can advance itself by broadening its historical base and its scope of inqui
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• Morale
  ...or which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed and [[trained]], the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fi ...phrase that means, roughly, the ''Morale'' of the/a unit, but also a core philosophy within the [[foundation]] of both organizations. In the USMC it is a phrase
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• Knowledge Representation
  Using frames for [[expert systems]] is an application of [[object-oriented]] programming, with [[inheritance]] of features described by the " Frame representations are object-centered in the same sense as [[semantic network]]s are: All the facts and
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...with Alfred North Whitehead and his interpreters only, and reveals process philosophy to be a broader and richer tradition than has generally been acknowledged. Keywords— process philosophy, Schelling, Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, ethics, art, being.
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• Metaphysics
  '''Metaphysics''' is the branch of [[philosophy]] investigating principles of [[reality]] transcending those of any particu ...ed collections. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there "first philosophy."
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• Adolf Harnack and the Search for Missing Christianity
  ...was a simple message that was subsequently obscured, particularly by the [[philosophy]], [[dogma]], and metaphysics of the post-apostolic and Nicean<!--why not N ...tical scrutiny of [[reason]] in the same way that we would treat any other object of examination. In summary we could say that where the church regarded the
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between [[philosophy]] ([[reason]]) and the religious teachings of [[Islam]] ([[faith]]). The attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult because there are no clear preconditions. Philosophers typical
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• Value theory
  ...theorists believe that this conception of value has relevance to all of [[philosophy]], [[economics]], [[sociology]] and [[psychology]] as well as Environmental ...objectives or as a means to objectives already held, roughly similar to an object with relative intrinsic value.
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• Darkness
  A dark object reflects fewer visible [[photons]] than other objects, and therefore appear ...that absorb visible light reemit it as infrared light.[2] So, although an object may appear dark, it is likely bright at a frequency that a [[human being]]
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• Desire
  '''Desire''' is a sense of longing for a [[person]] or object or [[hope|hoping]] for an outcome. The same sense is expressed by [[emotion ==In philosophy==
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• Understanding
  ...s able to think about it and use [[concepts]] to deal adequately with that object. ...est, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of [[philosophy]], [[cosmology]], and [[divinity]].
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• Hope
  :c. An object of hope; that which is hoped for. ...proach incorporates contributions from [[psychology]], [[anthropology]], [[philosophy]] and [[theology]] as well as classical and contemporary [[literature]] and
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• Entanglement
  ...of the constituting objects are [[Connected|linked]] together so that one object can no longer be adequately described without full mention of its counterpa ...some [[physical]] intervention is made to [[measure]] an observable of the object in question. In the singlet state of two spin, it is equally likely that an
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• Illuminate
  :c. To direct a beam of any kind of radiation at (an object or region): used esp. of radio waves and microwaves in connection with rada ...e discharge source..provided a beam of electrons which could illuminate an object such as an aperture or a wire grid.
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• Heredity
  ...]] of [[change]]; even slight advantages are important when continued. The object of selection is the phenotype in its surrounding environment. The role of g *[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heredity/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Heredity and Heritability]
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• Force
  ...omagnetic forces and the exclusion principle acting together to return the object to its equilibrium position. [[Centrifugal force]]s are acceleration forces ...curved line in space, and it is called the ''ballistic trajectory'' of the object. For example, a basketball thrown from the ground moves in a [[parabola]] s
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• Pataphysics
  ...coined by [[France|French]] writer [[Alfred Jarry]] (1873 – 1907), is a [[philosophy]] dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of [[metaphysics]]. It i ...ay 11, 1948, in Paris, is a group of artists and writers interested in the philosophy of 'pataphysics. The motto of the college is ''[[Eadem mutata resurgo]]'' (
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• Social
  ...he nature of social reality and what (or how) we can know about it are the object of [[social theory]]. ...tialist]] and [[postmodernist]] thought, relationships between the [[Self (philosophy)|Self]] and the [[Other]];
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• 2001-10-21-Urantia Is Growing
  ...nism]]. Yet the knots are often [[interference]] in the construction of an object. It is interesting to note that a knot is extremely hard and yet, when a pl ...can alter the [[growth]] [[pattern]]. Much as a curly grain beautifies an object that is built from that wood, [[your soul]] takes on patterns of [[beauty]]
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• Edwin Arnold
  ...ish verse of the life and philosophy of the East. His chief work with this object is [https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8920 ''The Light of Asia''] which was t
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• 1997-01-12-Contact With ETs, Teacher Son
  The object in question is not going to be a watershed [[event]]. There are rapid [[cha ...or other [[Ufology|life and other civilizations]] before that time. Your [[philosophy]] will incorporate this awareness before the coming of the teacher. Questio
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• Animal nature
  ...ehaviour to the super-real object and ignore the real object. A super-real object may cause pathologies and we can see many examples in humans (super-sweet f ...leuze draws upon the notions of ethology in his book "''Spinoza: Practical Philosophy''" to develop his [[ontology]], most specifically in reference to the plane
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• Spectacle
  ...owed from the Roman practice of staging [[Circus]]es, in the rather famous philosophy of the [[Rome|Roman]] elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order ...a train pulling into a station in 1895 was a sensation because it gave an object of gaze, of spectacle that audiences would never have experienced otherwise
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• Materialism
  The [[philosophy]] of '''materialism''' holds that the only thing that can be truly proven t ...kers opposed to it, who regard it as a [[Spirituality|spiritually ]] empty philosophy. [[Marxism]] also uses ''materialism'' to refer to a "materialist conceptio
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• Catharsis
  ...is that [[psychology]] and [[philosophy]] were not separate in [[Classical Philosophy]] Thus in classical mysticism, as well as current mystical traditions, kath ...sentative of its species (see animal [[worship]]). In both these cases the object of the rite is the elimination of impurity or of a source of danger. But th
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• Natural Sciences
  ...to the 17th century, the objective study of nature was known as [[natural philosophy]]. Over the next two centuries, however, a philosophical interpretation of This discipline is the science of [[Astronomical object|celestial objects]] and [[phenomena]] that originate outside the [[Earth's
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• Cognitive Science
  ...the interdisciplinary study of [[mind]] and [[intelligence]], embracing [[philosophy]], [[psychology]], artificial intelligence, neuroscience, [[linguistics]], ...ure of [[human]] [[knowledge]]. The study of mind remained the province of philosophy until the nineteenth century, when [[experiment]]al [[psychology]] develope
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• Idealism
  ...ory that maintains that the "real" is of the nature of thought or that the object of external perception consists of ideas. It can also be the tendency to r The approach to idealism by Western [[philosophy]] has been different from that of East. In Western thought ''the ideal'' re
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• Time
  ...ant/TIMELEC.HTM] Kant's Transcendental Idealism - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [https://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm#H4] in which time, rather than bein Time has long been a major subject of [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[art]]. Its measurement has occupied scientists and [[technologist]
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• Other
  ...ept]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy continental philosophy]; it [[opposes]] the Same. The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that ...self (psychology)], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(philosophy) self (philosophy)], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-concept self-concept]) and other
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• Perception
  ...sion, vnderstanding. 1661 J. GLANVILL Vanity of Dogmatizing x. 87 The best Philosophy..derives all sensitive perception from Motion, and corporal impress. 1690 J Just as one object can give rise to multiple percepts, so an object may fail to give rise to any percept at all: if the percept has no groundin
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• The Sciences
  ...its method of verifying its knowledge, using [[A priori and a posteriori (philosophy)|a priori]] rather than empirical methods. Formal science, which also inclu ...218 ''Science'' therefore had the same sort of very broad meaning that ''[[philosophy]]'' had at that time. In other languages, including French, Spanish, Portug
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• Humanities
  ...nguages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[visual arts|visual]] and [[performing arts]] (including ...y]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as philosophy and literature remain strong.
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• Ideology
  ...ocial agents and processes that produced them. No other term captures this object as well as ‘ideology’. Foucault’s ‘episteme’ is too narrow and ab == Ideology in Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, Post-Modernism and Critical Theory ==
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