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• Systems Theory
  ...osophy and Heraclitus [13]. Von Bertalanffy traced systems concepts to the philosophy of G.W. von [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz Leibniz] and [https://en ...cience, Vol 1, No. 2, by 1950. Where assumptions in Western science from [[Greek]] thought with [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] to Newton's Principia have histo
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• Opinion
  In [[economics]], other [[social sciences]] and [[philosophy]], [[analysis]] based on opinion is referred to as ''normative analysis'' ( ...or [[knowledge]] and [[belief]], in customary terminology of contemporary philosophy. Opinions can be [[persuasive]], but only the assertions they are based on
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• Catharsis
  ...ειν transliterated as kathairein "to purify, purge," and adjective Ancient Greek: καθαρός katharos "pure or clean." ...nfer that catharsis is pleasurable because audience members felt ekstasis (Greek: ἔκστασις) ([[ecstacy]]) (literally: astonishment, meaning: [[tran
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• Antithesis
  '''Antithesis''' ([[Greek]] for "setting opposite", from ἀντί "against" + θέσις "position") [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Philosophy
  ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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• Pseudo-science
  ...y,[5] or otherwise lacks scientific [[status]].[6] The term comes from the Greek prefix pseudo- (false or pretending) and "[[science]]" (from Latin scientia ..., cited in "Science and Pseudo-science" (2008) in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Stanford article states: "Many writers on pseudoscience have emphasize
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• Infinite
  ...ct concepts (usually linked to the idea of "without end") which arise in [[philosophy]], [[mathematics]], and [[theology]]. ..., of justification) that it is supposed to play."''Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy'', Second Edition, p. 429
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• Change
  .... In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Philosophy ancient Greek philosophy], while [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus Heraclitus] saw change as
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• Eloquence
  The [[concept]] of eloquence dates to the ancient [[Greek]]s, [[Calliope]],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemosyne]]) ...[[knowledge]] of language, study of a specific subject to be addressed, [[philosophy]], rationale and ability to form a persuasive set of tenets within a presen
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• Gadflies
  The term "gadfly" (Ancient Greek: μυο̃ψ, myops)[1] was used by [[Plato]] in the Apology[2] to describe [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Semiotics
  The term, which was spelled semiotics (Greek: σημειωτικός, semeiotikos, an interpreter of signs), was first u ...ogy, and hence of general psychology. We shall call it semiology (from the Greek semeîon, 'sign'). It would investigate the nature of signs and the laws go
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• Dichotomy
  The above applies directly when the term is used in [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], [[literature]], or [[linguistics]]. For example, if there is a concept A
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• 98:6 Mithraism and Christianity
  .../Occident Occident]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy Greek philosophy] supplied the [[concepts]] of [[ethical]] [[value]]; [https://en.wikipedia.
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• 133:6 At Ephesus—Discourse on the Soul
  ...aking tents for a living and conducting [[lecture]]s on [[religion]] and [[philosophy]] each night in the main [[audience]] chamber of the [https://www.israeljer ...talks [[Jesus]] had repeatedly used the word " [[soul]]. " This learned [[Greek]] finally asked him what he meant by " [[soul]], " and he replied:
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• 148:8 Last Week at Bethsaida
  ...r [[city]] for the [[purpose]] of [[establishing]] a joint [[school]] of [[philosophy]] and [[religion]] as well as an [[infirmary]] for the [[sick]]. But [[Jesu
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• Judeo-Islamic philosophy
  ...article covers the influence of [[Jewish philosophy|Jewish]] and [[Islamic philosophy]] on each other, focusing especially on the period from 800-1400 CE. == Early philosophy ==
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• Exile
  ...h interested in, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy Greek philosophy] of [[self-realization]] and an [[abstract]] [[Deity]]; they rather craved
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• Medieval Philosophy
  '''Medieval philosophy''' is the philosophy of Europe and the Middle East in the era now known as medieval or the [[Mid The [[history]] of medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into three main periods:
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• Theodicy
  The term theodicy comes from the Greek θεός (theós, "god") and δίκη (díkē, "justice"), meaning literall [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• Etymology
  ...ish] ''ethimologie'', from Anglo-French, from Latin ''etymologia'', from [[Greek]], from ''etymon'' + -''logia'' -logy. From ''etumon'', neuter singular of ...who in 1782 observed the [[genetic]] relationship between [[Sanskrit]], [[Greek]] and [[Latin]]. Jones published his ''The Sanscrit Language'' in 1786, lay
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