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• Experience
  A famous [[metaphor]] for [[philosophy]] from the opening pages of the opus '''''Process and Reality''''' (1929) i ...Many_Worlds:_The_New_Universe_and_Its_Theological_Implications worldview]. In the end, however, our theories must eventually land and once again make con
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• Tree of Life
  ...life on [[earth]] is related has been used in [[science]], [[religion]], [[philosophy]], [[mythology]], and other areas. A tree of life is variously; *1. a motif in various world [[theologies]], [[mythologies]], and [[philosophies]];
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• Heart
  ...bols|symbol]] to refer to the [[spiritual]], [[emotion]]al, [[moral]], and in the past also [[intellectual]] core of a [[human being]]. As the heart was ==As metaphor==
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• Dilemma
  ...table; or "being between a rock and a hard place", since both objects or [[metaphor]]ical choices being rough. ...rait of Messina]] between Sicily and Calabria, in Italy. They were located in close enough proximity to each other that they posed an inescapable threat
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• Eloquence
  ...reby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for writing in a fluent style. ...led with the [[power]] of [[persuasion]], or just being extremely graceful in the interpretation of [[communication]].
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• John Donne
  ...]] and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the [[idea]] of true [[religion]], something that he spen ...Cathedral] in London. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.
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• Figure of Speech
  ...]] not based on the [[literal]] meaning of the [[words]] in it such as a [[metaphor]], [[simile]], or [[personification]]. Figures of speech often provide emph [[Rhetoric]] originated as the [[study]] of the ways in which a source text can be transformed to suit the goals of the person reus
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• Metaphor
  [[Image:The-metaphor-of-the-palm-treelgr.jpg|right|frame|<center>[https://www.moleiro.com/miniat ...and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context.
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• Pataphysics
  ...y]] of the [[theory]] and methods of modern science and is often expressed in [[nonsense|nonsensical]] [[language]]. A practitioner of 'pataphysics is a
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• Pessimism
  :b : the [[doctrine]] that [[evil]] overbalances [[happiness]] in life ...hese are [[evaluated]] as something good or something bad can be described in terms of one's [[optimism]] or pessimism respectively. Throughout [[history
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• Mindstream
  ...m]]" ([[Sanskrit]]: saṃtāna) of [[awareness]]. There are a number of terms in the Buddhist literature that may well be rendered "mindstream". The mindstr ...other a [[mind]]. However, what we call the mental and the material occurs in a [[unity]] of organization. [[Organization]] is something [[dynamic]]."
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• Spiritual Evolution
  ...ture]] evolve along a predetermined [[cosmological]] pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-determined [[potentials]]. ...[[concept]] is also complemented by the [[idea]] of a creative [[impulse]] in [[human being]]s, known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenesis epigen
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• Hierarchy
  ...ary]. The word can also refer to a series of such items so arranged. Items in a hierarchy are typically thought of as being "above," "below," or "at the ...f the hierarchy), the term came to refer to similar organizational methods in more general settings.
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• Transcendentalism
  ...eligion]], [[culture]], and [[philosophy]] that emerged in [[New England]] in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called ''American Transce ...test against the general state of culture and [[society]] at the time, and in particular, the state of [[intellectualism]] at [[Harvard]] and the doctrin
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• Analogy
  ...arget themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy. ...that analogy is "the core of cognition" ([[Douglas Hofstadter|Hofstadter]] in Gentner et al. 2001). <br>
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• Adolf Harnack and the Search for Missing Christianity
  ...ield of biblical studies forever, but he ultimately enlisted those methods in the search for the missing heart of Christianity ...the Protestant faith was rooted in the [[concept]] of ''sola scriptura'', in which the Christian [[canon]] of scripture was considered to be an epistemo
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• Difference
  ...rks, notably in his essay "Différance" and in various interviews collected in ''Positions''. ...g") concerns the force which differentiates elements from one another and, in so doing, engenders binary oppositions and [[hierarchy|hierarchies]] which
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• Hermeneutics
  ...ication, such as presuppositions, preunderstandings, the [[meaning]] and [[philosophy]] of [[language]], and [[semiotics]].[1] ...primarily to [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]]'s theory of [[knowledge]] as developed in ''Truth and Method'', and sometimes to [[Paul Ricoeur]].[2] A hermeneutic (
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• Catharsis
  ...'s claim that [[poetry]] encourages men to be hysterical and uncontrolled. In response to Plato, Aristotle maintains that poetry makes them less, not mor ...er is confronted with [[unique]] actions in time. This can be clearly seen in ''Oedipus Rex'' where [[King Oedipus]] is confronted with ever more outrage
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• Death of God
  ...rd time in section 343 (The Meaning of our Cheerfulness). It is also found in Nietzsche's classic work ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' (''Also sprach Zara ...ses the atheists primarily — the problem is to retain any system of values in the absence of a divine order. (He also goes to the churches to point out
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