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• Animism
  '''Animism''' (from Latin anima "[[soul]], life") is a [[philosophical]], [[religious]] or spiritual [[idea]] that souls or spirits exist not only ...a.org/wiki/Sir_Edward_Tylor Sir Edward Tylor], who created it as "one of [[anthropology]]'s earliest concepts, if not the first".
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...ciences, including—in addition to [[philosophy]] and [[literature]]—law, [[anthropology]], historiography, [[linguistics]], sociolinguistics, [[psychoanalysis]], p ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophical_tradition Western philosophical tradition] and also more broadly Western culture. By questioning the domina
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• The Helianx Propostion/page 9
  ...the planetary ambassadors were more than willing to discuss the social and philosophical issues that were engaging the best minds of their world. In this way the Helianx became the first of the early cosmic cultural [[anthropology|anthropologists]], accumulating vast libraries of holographic recordings of
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• 2013-06-25-A New Theology
  ...knowledge obtained by other sciences and philosophies, such as sociology, anthropology, biology, and more. Could you consider the Universal Father while ignoring ...ogy must be divorced from traditional religion. It is a fallacy dedicating philosophical efforts to attempt to justify a predetermined opinion or to exalt the life
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• Religion
  ...tudies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies including [[anthropology]], [[sociology]], [[psychology]], [[philosophy]], and [[history]] of religi ...estor of modern religious studies, is differentiated from the many Eastern philosophical traditions by generally being written from a third party perspective. The s
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• African Philosophy
  ...no clearly articulated and documented philosophy exists, there is still a philosophical tradition. Put simply, even if there were no known African philosophers, t ...rfectly capable of philosophical thought. The standard view of the rise of philosophical (and of scientific) thought is that it probably required a certain sort of
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• Cognitive Science
  ...sychology]], artificial intelligence, neuroscience, [[linguistics]], and [[anthropology]]. Its [[intellectual]] origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in se Cognitive [[anthropology]] expands the examination of human thinking to consider how thought works i
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• Paradigm
  ...experiment]]s performed in support of them are formulated; ''broadly '': a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind.[https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/paradi ...ame to prefer the terms exemplar and normal science, which have more exact philosophical meanings. However, in his book ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]
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• Deity
  ...imals, and, including all the elements, air, water, earth, and fire. The [[anthropology|anthropologist]] E. B. Tylor argued that religion originally took an animis ...s and practices of various religions. [[Philosophy of religion]] discusses philosophical issues related to theories about deities. Narratives about deities and thei
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ..., and the reasons for relating literary theory to ethics and philosophical anthropology. Construing Schelling as an idealist or Romantic has enabled philosophers t ...various directions of his life’s work, that: ‘our analysis must be called philosophical mainly because of what it is not: it is not a linguistic, philological, lit
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• Social Sciences
  ...t]], [[Mediterranean Basin|Mediterranean]] and [[South Asia]]. Al-Biruni's anthropology of religion was only possible for a scholar deeply immersed in the lore of ...m]]ic anthropology. Richard Tapper (1995). "Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam", ''Anthropological Quarterly'' '''68''' (3), Anthropological Anal
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• Anthropology
  ...imary methods, and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. ...ten known as [[Participant observation|participant-observation]]. Cultural anthropology in particular has emphasized [[Cultural relativism|cultural relativity]] an
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• Semiotics
  ......an intelligence capable of learning by [[experience]]",[5] and which is philosophical [[logic]] pursued in terms of signs and sign processes.[6] Charles Morris f ...o some of the humanities (including [[literary theory]]) and to cultural [[anthropology]].
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• Culture
  ...]] focus on social interactions, statuses and institutions, and [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologists]] focus on norms and values. This division of lab By the late 19th century, [[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''culture'' to a broader
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• University
  ...under the heading of the social sciences. [[Economics]], [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], demography, [[psychology]], city planning, and history of science came o In the beginning, the [[intellectual]], [[philosophical]], and scientific starting point of all [[teaching]] and [[learning]] was t
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• Death of God
  ...as nihilistic. To Nietzsche, nihilism is the consequence of any idealistic philosophical system, because all idealisms suffer from the same weakness as Christian mo ...understood as referring not to a particular [[theology|theological]] or [[anthropology|anthropological]] view but rather to the end of philosophy itself. Philosop
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• Cultural
  ...]] focus on social interactions, statuses and institutions, and [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologists]] focus on norms and values. This division of lab By the late 19th century, [[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''culture'' to a broader
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• Cybernetics
  ...engineering, [[logic]] modeling, evolutionary [[biology]], neuroscience, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]] in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conference ...ges or can be changed to better accomplish the first two tasks [2]. A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1956 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of c
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• Community
  ===Anthropology=== ...al to anthropological research. Some of the ways community is addressed in anthropology include the following:
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• Humanity
  ...[music]]). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are [[anthropology]], [[area studies]], [[communications]] and [[cultural studies]], although ...er and example of tradition for political morality. In the west, the Greek philosophical tradition, represented by the works of [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], was dif
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