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• 5:5 The Consciousness of God
  ...] of [[science]], the obligations of [[society]], the [[assumptions]] of [[philosophy]], or the implied [[Duty|duties]] of morality. Religion is an independent r ...olutionary religion]] is the [[mother]] of the [[science]], [[art]], and [[philosophy]] which elevated man to the level of receptivity to [[Paper 92 - Later Evol
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• Probability
  ...study as mathematics, [[statistics]], [[finance]], gambling, science, and philosophy to draw conclusions about the likelihood of [[potential]] [[events]] and th ...mous, 1713) and Abraham de Moivre's Doctrine of Chances (1718) treated the subject as a branch of mathematics. See Ian Hacking's The Emergence of Probability
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• 2011-01-05-Very Happy and Spiritual New Year
  We wish to broaden our approach and provide access to our spiritual philosophy on top of the messages we are already channelling through you. I don’t wa ...ming geophysical and other major changes on our planet, won’t this plan be subject to huge disruptions?
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• Quantity
  ...investigation and cannot be assumed to exist [[A priori and a posteriori (philosophy)|a priori]] for any given property. The linear [[continuum (mathematics)|co ...bodies marked by quantitative properties or physical dimensions, which are subject to some measurements and observations. Setting the units of measurement, ph
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• Chance
  In [[philosophy]] and [[logic]], [[contingency]] is the status of propositions that are not ...s and [[culture]]s, for a long time, there was little [[inquiry]] into the subject. Though Gerolamo Cardano and Galileo wrote about games of chance, the first
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• Solitude
  ...ally not a negative thing. (More often than not, there is a reward for the subject's time as an experiment.) Source isolation includes no benefits, and cannot ...idea, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human [[philosophy]].[https://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/pape
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• Public speaking
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintilian Quintilian] discussed oratory, and the subject, with definitive rules and models, was emphasised as a part of a [https://e ...n]] in all areas of humanistic [[study]] (in the liberal arts, including [[philosophy]]), as well as on the use of wit and [[humor]], on appeal to the listener's
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between [[philosophy]] ([[reason]]) and the religious teachings of [[Islam]] ([[faith]]). The attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult because there are no clear preconditions. Philosophers typical
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• Noumenon
  ...uman senses. The two words serve as interrelated technical terms in Kant's philosophy. As expressed in Kant's ''Critique of Pure Reason,'' human understanding is ...ct considered transcendentally apart from all the conditions under which a subject can gain knowledge of it. Hence the thing in itself is, by definition, unkn
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• Pataphysics
  ...coined by [[France|French]] writer [[Alfred Jarry]] (1873 – 1907), is a [[philosophy]] dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of [[metaphysics]]. It i ...ay 11, 1948, in Paris, is a group of artists and writers interested in the philosophy of 'pataphysics. The motto of the college is ''[[Eadem mutata resurgo]]'' (
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• 96:4 The Proclamation of Yahweh
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egyptian religious philosophy], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedoin Bedouin] [[slaves]] knew little ...ade it [[necessary]] to speak of [[God]] as being in man's image, as being subject to fits of anger, wrath, and severity, even that he was vengeful and easily
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• Intention
  ...concept from scholastic philosophy but was reintroduced in 19th century [[philosophy]] by [[Franz Brentano]] in his work ''Psychology from an Empirical Standpoi ...ent philosophy, both [[Continental philosophy|continental]] and [[Analytic philosophy|analytic]]. French philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], in ''[[Being and Nothi
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• Materialism
  The [[philosophy]] of '''materialism''' holds that the only thing that can be truly proven t ...kers opposed to it, who regard it as a [[Spirituality|spiritually ]] empty philosophy. [[Marxism]] also uses ''materialism'' to refer to a "materialist conceptio
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• Omniscience
  ...to challenge in customary affairs, it is then also somewhat ridiculed as a philosophy. [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Discourse
  ...ortant figures in this field; Habermas trying to find the [[transcendence (philosophy)|transcendent]] rules upon which speakers could agree on a groundworks cons ...scourses are not tied to the [[subject (philosophy)|subject]]; rather, the subject is a [[social construction]] of the discourse, or, as [[Nietzsche]] said, a
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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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• Metaphysics
  '''Metaphysics''' is the branch of [[philosophy]] investigating principles of [[reality]] transcending those of any particu ...ed collections. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there "first philosophy."
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• Passion
  ...feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion towards a subject, [[idea]], [[person]], or object. ...corresponding weakening of the ego that leads to the submissiveness of the subject. Freud used a model of the hypnotic relationship to describe the crowd's su
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• Other
  ...ept]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy continental philosophy]; it [[opposes]] the Same. The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that ...self (psychology)], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(philosophy) self (philosophy)], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-concept self-concept]) and other
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• Ethics
  ...he [[adjective]] of [[ἤθος]] ''ēthos'' "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of [[Value theory|value]]s and [[Custom (law)|custom]]s of a ...e judged. These theories may be derived from [[theology]] or [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalism]].
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