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• Quantity
  In his [[Euclid's_Elements|Elements]], [[Euclid]] developed the theory of ratios of magnitudes without studying the nature of magnitudes, as Archi ...bers, number systems, with their kinds and relations, fall into the number theory. Geometry studies the issues of spatial magnitudes: straight lines (their l
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• Science
  ...e often led to major advances in the physical and biological sciences. The formal sciences are essential in the formation of [[hypotheses]], [[theories]], an ..., a large number of hypotheses may be logically bound together by a single theory. A ''[[physical law]]'' or ''law of nature'' is a scientific generalization
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• Avant-garde
  ...n essayist Renato Poggioli's 1962 book Teoria dell'arte d'avanguardia (The Theory of the Avant-Garde). Surveying the historical, social, psychological and ph ...ify and extend Poggioli's study. The German literary critic Peter Bürger's Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) looks at the Establishment's embrace of socially
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• Sovereignty
  A more formal distinction is whether the law is held to be sovereign, which constitutes a ...n an attempt, argues [[Giorgio Agamben]], to counter [[Walter Benjamin]]'s theory of [[violence]] as radically disjoint from law. [[Georges Bataille]]'s hete
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• Defense
  ...s comes from [[Sigmund Freud]]’s structural [[model]]. According to this [[theory]], id impulses are based on the [[pleasure]] principle: instant gratificati ...ions; separation of emotion from [[ideas]]; [[thinking]] about wishes in [[formal]], affectively bland terms and not acting on them; avoiding unacceptable em
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• Art History
  ...ich'', p. 7. London: Phaidon Press</ref> Works of art criticism and of art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history ...comparable style, or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and ''[[art theory]]'', which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art, and is more rel
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• 180:5 The Spirit of Truth
  ...]] [[truth]] is dead [[truth]], and only dead [[truth]] can be held as a [[theory]]. Living [[truth]] is [[dynamic]] and can [[enjoy]] only an [[experiential ...living [[God]]. Neither [[tradition]] nor a [[ceremonial]] [[system]] of [[formal]] [[worship]] can [[atone]] for the lack of genuine [[compassion]] for one'
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• Library Science
  ...ip with information science. LIS should not be confused with [[information theory]], the mathematical study of the [[concept]] of information, or [[informati ==Theory and practice==
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• Risk
  ...5] and radiological release (e.g., GBq of radio-iodine). There are many [[formal]] [[method]]s used to assess or to "measure" risk, considered as one of the Thus, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory statistical decision theory], the risk [[function]] of an estimator δ(x) for a parameter θ, calculate
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• Leadership
  ===Trait theory=== ...cs of men who rose to [[power]].[5] Ronald Heifetz (1994) traces the trait theory approach back to the nineteenth-century [[tradition]] of associating the [[
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• Cognitive Science
  ''Although theory without [[experiment]] is empty, experiment without theory is blind''. To address the crucial questions about the [[nature]] of mind, ...psychology, neuroscience is often theoretical as well as experimental, and theory development is frequently aided by developing computational models of the [
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• Holy
  ...y]] or [[character]]. the Holy Name, the name of [[Jesus]] as an object of formal devotion among Catholics, as in the Litany of the Holy Name and the festiva ...[things]], that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represented the interests of the [[group]], especially unity, w
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• Languages and Literature
  Later in the West, the success of [[science]], [[mathematics]], and other [[formal system]]s in the 20th century led many to attempt a formalization of the st == Formal languages ==
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• Metaphysics
  ...ciences". Its issues were considered no less important than the other main formal subjects of [[Natural Sciences|physical science]], [[medicine]], [[mathemat ..., thus making them part of [[physics]] proper (cf. [[Albert Einstein]]'s [[Theory of Relativity]]).
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• Communication
  ...ns. Some of those systematical questions are elaborated in [[Communication theory]]. ...nsmission]] governed by three levels of [[semiotic]] rules: [[Syntactic]] (formal properties of signs and symbols), [[pragmatic]] (concerned with the relatio
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• Power (sociology)
  Even in [[structuralism|structuralist]] social theory, power appears as a ''process'', an aspect to an ongoing social relationshi ...ssociated with [[Alfred Adler]], place power dynamics at the core of their theory (where orthodox [[Freudian]]s might place [[human sexuality|sexuality]]).
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• Real Presences
  mirrors which is that of modernist theory and practice’ (141)3 have tantalising resonances with our primary [[creation]] which is the grappling with observation and [[theory]] is kept at a safe distance. In
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• Reality
  ...'). In other words, "reality", as a philosophical category, includes the [[formal]] concept of "nothingness" and articulations and combinations of it with ot ...re they come from. The Galilean proposition in support of the Copernican [[theory]], that the sun is the center of the solar system is one that states the fa
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• Dance
  ...s dance studies (dance [[practice (learning method)|practice]], [[critical theory]], [[Musical analysis]] and [[history]]) began to be considered an [[academ ...[[Cultural Studies]], [[Gender Studies]], [[Area studies]], [[Postcolonial theory]], [[Ethnography]], etc.
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• Academic
  ====Practice and theory==== ...[[employment]], and [[business]]. Critics of academia say that academic [[theory]] is insulated from the '[[real world]]', and thus does not have to take in
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