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  • <center>'''Structure''' is a shared form allowing multiple components, [[facet]]s, or parts to f ...gm and paradigm shift. Among the people that are notable in the concept of structure, [[Alfred Korzybski]] is probably best-remembered for developing the theory
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  • ...set of interacting or [[Interdependence|interdependent]] entities, real or abstract, forming an integrated whole. ...systems science, systemics and systems engineering. They investigate the [[abstract]] properties of the [[matter]] and organization, searching [[concepts]] and
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  • A typical thesis has a title page, an abstract, a table of contents, a body, comprising the various chapters, and a biblio ...ations [[normally]] report on a [[research]] project of some kind, and the structure nearly always [[reflects]] this by a) introducing the research [[topic]], w
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  • ...etrical because a rotation about its axis preserves its shape. A crystal [[structure]] is symmetrical with respect to certain translations in [[space]]. The exi ...o properties of objects, to processes they may undergo, as well as to more abstract entities such as mathematical structures, scientific [[law]]s, and [[symbol
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  • A phrase is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax syntactic] [[structure]] having syntactic properties derived from its head. ...re also [[expresses]] some type of conceptual content, be it specific or [[abstract]].
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  • ...se]]s and [[sentences]]) and [[phonology]] (the study of sound systems and abstract sound units). [[Phonetics]] is a related branch of linguistics concerned wi
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  • ...en are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. Given the structure of this argument, as long as the premises are true, then the conclusion is ...]’s theory of forms, which states that properties such as [[beauty]] are [[abstract]] universal entities that exist independent of the objects themselves. Inst
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  • ...tive]] dimension (e.g. a new [[style]] of art coming into being, such as [[abstract]] art or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism impressionism] it gen ...are in way some novel); and novelty [[architecture]] (a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design). It is also this sens
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  • ...analytical]] [[purposes]], a [[culture]] could be viewed as a three-part [[structure]] composed of sub[[systems]] that he termed [[ideological]], [[technologica ...om]] make up this category. Passed on from generation to generation, these abstract belief systems, or mentifacts, tell us what we ought to believe, what we sh
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  • ...ion]], or an end, which is an object, either a [[physical]] object or an [[abstract]] object, that has [[intrinsic]] [[value]]. ...litary objectives can be set within a three-tier [[scale]] of [[combat]] [[structure]] of tactical, operational and strategic [[management]] of the [[conflict]]
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  • ...WILL of the Father into the circuits of Urantian consciousness. There is a structure of the way power and energy is wielded into the circuits of Urantian consci ...ake more mighty changes in these enhanced circuits of your planetary power structure for the Father’s WILL to prevail.
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  • ...epression or [[censorship]], whatever one is thinking at the time, turning abstract ideas into a concrete image, which may be perceived as an apt and succinct ...nown example being the story of [[August Kekulé]]’s [[discovery]] of the [[structure]] of benzene. Similarly, the teenaged Karl Gauss obtained an insight during
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  • *One view of space is that it is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a set of [[dimension]]s in which [[object (philosophy)|obj *A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental abstract mathematical [[concepts|concept]]ual framework (together with [[time]] and
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  • *1:the [[abstract]] [[science]] of [[number]], [[quantity]], and [[space]]. Mathematics may b ...matics''' is the [[study]] of topics such as [[quantity]] ([[numbers]]), [[structure]], [[space]], and [[change]]. There is a range of views among mathematician
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  • ...es. The subject of geometry was further enriched by the study of intrinsic structure of geometric objects that originated with [[Euler]] and [[Carl Friedrich Ga ...ly resemble at small scales. These spaces may be endowed with additional [[structure]], allowing one to speak about length. Modern geometry has multiple strong
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  • Think of this, my friends. Because of your [[free will]] you choose how to [[structure]] your days. You create the [[milieu]] of your lives by your [[choices]] da ...n, and have commonality of [[personality]] status.We do not relate to an [[abstract]] Force. We do not [[worship]] a chemical [[formula]]. We are the children
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  • ...." As stated by Goguen, "To any canonical construction from one species of structure to another corresponds an [[Adjoint functors|adjunction]] between the corre ...is ''other'' than the standard one (see [[Jordan form]]). In contrast, an abstract ''n''-dimensional real vector space ''V'' would not have a canonical basis;
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  • == Quantitative structure== ...thematics)|continuum]] represents the prototype of continuous quantitative structure as characterized by Hölder (1901) (translated in Michell & Ernst, 1996). A
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  • Study of abstract [[formal systems]],i.e. [[logic]], [[mathematics]], & theoretical [[compute [[Knowledge]] centered on concepts as [[quantity]], [[structure]], [[space]], and [[change]]
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  • ...ctive index is a function of position. The "ray" in geometric optics is an abstract object, or "instrument," which is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the ac ...sition of periodic structures, for example transparent tissues with a grid structure, produces shapes known as [[moiré pattern]]s. Superimposition of periodic
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