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• Omniscience
  *Instead of producing a parallel model in God's own infallible mind of the future contingent actions of a free age ...be forced to swerve to avoid a collision — this is assuming each player is logical and follows optimal [[strategy]].[8]
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• Logic
  * '''[[Informal logic]]''' is the study of [[natural language]] [[Logical argument|arguments]]. The study of [[fallacies]] is an especially importan ...terior Analytics]]''. We will see later that in many definitions of logic, logical inference and inference with purely formal content are the same. This does
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• Chamber 2
  ...d the compelling features of Source Reality through the application of the logical mind and the persistent belief in the language of limitation that flows fro The hierarchy, through the purveyance of an evolution/saviorship model of existence, has attempted to guide the development of all entities throug
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• Natural Sciences
  Aside from the logical and mathematical sciences, there are three great branches of ''natural scie ...ws set down by the field. Physics relies heavily on [[mathematics]] as the logical framework for formulation and quantification of principles.
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• Worldview
  ...natural science. They view the [[scientific method]] as the most reliable model for building an [[understanding]] of the world. ...hat, even having chosen axioms not [[everything]] that was true in a given logical system could be proven. Some philosophers believe the [[problems]] extend t
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• Dialogue
  Plato further simplified the form and reduced it to pure [[Logical argument|argumentative]] conversation, while leaving intact the amusing ele ...elebrated. Italian writers of collections of dialogues, following Plato's model, include [[Torquato Tasso]] ([[1586]]), [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] ([[1632
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• The Universal Schoolhouse
  the industrial revolution. The assembly-line model is lodged deeply in the educational model. We agree that the spiritual [[dimension]] is an important
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• Knowledge Representation
  ...f logic operations, such as [[truth table]]s, which were used to study and model Boolean logic, for example. [[Spreadsheet]]s are yet another tabular repres ...ach node represents a [[concept]] and arcs are used to define [[Relational model|relation]]s between the concepts.
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• Cybernetics
  ...an environment. On the other hand cybernetic factory can be [[mathematical model|modeled]] as a control system. ...gulating devices. Jakob von Uexküll applied the feedback mechanism via his model of functional cycle (Funktionskreis) in order to explain [[animal]] [[behav
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• Intelligence
  ...like condemning the auto industry by criticizing the performance of the [[Model T]]. ...telligences. He argues that psychometric tests address only linguistic and logical plus some aspects of spatial intelligence; other forms have been entirely i
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• Inquiry
  ...h the [[normative science]] of [[logic]]. In its inception, the pragmatic model or theory of inquiry was extracted by Peirce from its raw materials in clas ...that it provides us with doubly instructive exercises in the use of his [[logical graph]]s, taken at the level of his so-called '[[alpha graph]]s'.
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• Existence
  ...atical predicate, but philosophers have long disputed whether it is also a logical predicate. Some philosophers claim that it predicates something, and has t ...f atoms but rather that triangles exist within a particular [[mathematical model]].
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• Molecule
  ...803-1808) and [[Avogadro's law]] (1811), there was some resistance among [[logical positivism|positivists]] and physicists such as [[Ernst Mach|Mach]], [[Ludw ...the understanding of the [[chemical bond]]. The simplest molecules used as model systems since the early days of [[quantum chemistry]] are the [[hydrogen mo
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• Cognitive Science
  ...e of thinking in cognitive science, including connectionist theories which model thinking using artificial [[neural network]]s. ...ave proposed that the mind contains such mental representations as [[Logic|logical]] propositions, rules, [[concepts]], images, and analogies, and that it use
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• Learning
  [[Example]] can be a motivation for learning. [[Imitation]] of a [[role model]] is a natural mechanism for [[infant]]s and [[child]]ren, when learning fr
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• 2013-06-05-Q and A Session with Charles 3
  ...e said and begin to ask individual questions. Lead me and lead you into a logical, rational construct with this topic. ...Japan, and the Pacific area—even in China with its different governmental model—is still highly competitive. Competition causes separation; competition s
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• 2009-01-11-Living in These Changing Times
  ...or your future, for yourself and for your family, based upon a traditional model. Here in these current economic times that present so many people with dif ...You are of little use to your life when you are broken; your example and model for your children is detrimental. It is difficult to give up those things
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• 2014-08-01-New Era Conversations 27
  ...the first follower provides. That person, the first follower, becomes the model for all those who come along. It is important that the first models be org ...es. It will be some time yet before she and her group devise a conceptual model for implementing a new program that is socially sustainably based, but they
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• Determinism
  ...unbroken chain of prior occurrences, but a selectionistic or probabilistic model does not.[3][4] ...hin a tolerance. However, old western scientists believed if there are any logical connections found between an observed cause and effect, there must be also
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• The Sciences
  ...nce)|theory]]'', in the context of science, is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of certain natural phenomena. A t ...tional fields. Outside these conditions, Newton's Laws remain an excellent model of motion and gravity. Since general relativity accounts for all the same p
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