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• Gravity
  Efforts to understand gravity began in ancient times. [[Indian philosophy|Philosophers]] in [[History of science in early cultures#India|ancient Indi ...ld the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its centre."</blockquote> According to [[Kanada]], founder of
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• Knowledge
  ...ter are also actually, in the condition described. Consequently the proper object of unqualified scientific knowledge is something which cannot be other than ...by Grmek, Cohen, and Cimino [1977], published in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series.) The scientific method is not a method directly applied,
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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== philosophy and a key text in the Neo-Platonists’ efforts to expound their theurtgy,
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• Akashic Records
  ...long with the [[concept]] of an aetheric library, originated with I[[ndian philosophy]] and was incorporated into the 19th century movement of theosophy. ..., in 2150 AD society is ordered according to a philosophy called the Macro-Philosophy and they have supercomputers with video screens that can access the akashic
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• Cultural Formation
  ...ion]]. Identity formation leads to a number issues of [[Personal identity (philosophy)|personal identity]] and an [[Identity (social science)|identity]] where th ...analytic developmental theory contained three phases regarding the child's object relations. [[Jean Piaget]]'s theory of cognitive development to describe ho
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• Affection
  ...n (popularly: love, devotion etc); disease; influence; state of [[being]] (philosophy)[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotions-17th18th/LD7Hutcheson.html] an ...nt. More specifically the word has been restricted to emotional states the object of which is a person. In the former sense, it is the Greek "[[pathos]]" an
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• Personal
  ...tion]] may be treated as a "person" under the [[law]]. In the fields of [[philosophy]], [[theology]], and [[bioethics]], the definition of a person may exclude ...entre around the degree to which properties such as agency (both [[Agency (philosophy)|human agency]] and [[moral agency]]) and [[rights]] are recognized and ack
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• Golden rule
  == Ancient Greek philosophy == The Golden Rule was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. A few examples:
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• Density
  ...balance; the volume may be measured directly (from the [[geometry]] of the object) or by the displacement of a fluid. Hydrostatic weighing is a [[method]] th ...y of a liquid is the hydrometer, which measures the volume displaced by an object of known mass. A common laboratory device for measuring fluid density is a
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• Science
  ...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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• Eastern philosophy
  '''Eastern philosophy''' refers very broadly to the various [[philosophy|philosophies]] of [[India]], [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]],and, to some e ...Many claim that geographical and time notions of "Western" and "Eastern" philosophy is too vague and imprecise, committing the [[fallacy]] of overgeneralizatio
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• History of the Concept of the Mind, v. 2 - Introduction
  *Introduction:The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy *by Paul S. McDonald, Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University, Australia.
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• Design
  ...signer to consider the aesthetic, functional, and many other aspects of an object or a process, which usually requires considerable [[research]], [[thought]] In [[philosophy]], the abstract noun "design" refers to a pattern with a [[purpose]]. Desig
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• Analogy
  ...idiom]]s give many examples of its application, but also in [[science]], [[philosophy]] and the [[humanities]]. The concepts of association, comparison, corres ...[cognitive psychology]], [[literary theory]], and specializations within [[philosophy]] outside of [[logic]], speaks of a mapping from what is typically the more
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• 2006-02-19-Seasons Of The Soul
  ...er within you, provides a desire to understand, the yearning to know. Your philosophy begins to grow all by itself out of this intrinsic kernel of curiosity. You *(How your philosophy and soul mirror each other)
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• Shame
  ...is the [[focus]] of evaluation. In [[guilt]], the self is not the central object of negative evaluation, but rather the [[thing]] done is the [[focus]]."[5] # Hutchinson, Phil: chapter four of Shame and Philosophy
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• Determinism
  ==Philosophy of determinism== ...tem]] has been articulated in both Eastern and non-Eastern [[religion]], [[philosophy]], and [[literature]].
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• Humanity
  ...nguages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[visual arts|visual]] and [[performing arts]] (including ...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
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• Sui Generis
  The expression was effectively created by scholastic [[philosophy]] to indicate an [[idea]], an entity or a [[reality]] that cannot be includ ...strate his theories on social [[existence]]. Durkheim states that the main object of sociology is to study social [[fact]]s. These social facts can only be e
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• Occult
  ...he name also extends to a large body of [[literature]] and [[spiritual]] [[philosophy]]. ...s of gaining insight into the occult is the use of a [[focus]]; a physical object, a [[ritual]]istic [[action]] (for example, [[meditation]] or chanting), or
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