Secondary Corpus

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The Humanities[1]

Those academic disciplines which study the human condition.

Classics[2]

Studies dealing with the languages, literature, history, art, and all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Cosmology[3]

The study of the Universe integrating science, philosophy, and religion.

History[4]

Study of the past, focused on human activity and leading up to the present day.

Literature[5]

Language symbols used for communication and often as an art including the critical analysis of the same.

Philosophy[6]

from (philos) "beloved" & (sophia) "wisdom."

Religion[7]

From L. re-ligare meaning to rebind.

The Arts[8]

• A broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines.

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Film[9]

• Individual motion pictures or the field of film as an art form

Music[10]

• An art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time.

Opera[11]

• Opera is a form of musical and dramatic work in which singers convey the drama.

Paintings[12]

• Applying color to a surface with drawing, composition and other aesthetic considerations.

Prints[13]

• The process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

Sculpture[14]

• Three-dimensional objects, created as art.

Theatre[15]

• Dramatic performance where speech, either from written text (plays), or improvised is paramount.

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The Sciences[16]

Knowledge of 'observable' phenomena based on the scientific method.

Natural Sciences[17]

The rational study of the universe understood as obeying rules or laws of natural origin.

Astronomy[18]

The science of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere.

Physical Cosmology[19]

Cosmology, Gr.κοσμολογία the quantitative study of the Universe

Biology[20]

The disciplines that examine phenomena related to living organisms.

Chemistry[21]

The scientific study of matter at the atomic and molecular scale

Earth Science[22]

The term for the sciences related to the planet Earth

Physics[23]

Study of the fundamental constituents of the universe, their forces and interactions

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Social Sciences[24]

The group of disciplines that study human aspects of the world using the scientific method.

Anthropology[25]

A holistic discipline studying the integration of different aspects of the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Human Biology.

Economics[26]

The study analyzing and describing the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth.

Education[27]

Teaching and learning, skills, knowledge, positive judgement and well-developed wisdom.

Geography[28]

Study of earth in terms of physical, spatial, and cultural relationships.

Law[29]

Rules that warrant enforcement through formal processes.

Linguistics[30]

A discipline that examines at the material, cognitive, and social aspects of human language.

Political science[31]

The theory and practice of politics; descriptive analyses of political systems and political behaviour.

Psychology[32]

An academic and applied field involving the study of behavior and mental processes.

Sociology[33]

The study of society and human social action.

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Formal Sciences[34]

Study of abstract formal systems,i.e. logic, mathematics, & theoretical computer science, information theory, & statistics.

Computer Science[35]

Theoretical foundations of information and computation; implementation and application in computer systems.

Information Theory[36]

Quantification of data to maximize efficiency in storage & communications.

Logic[37]

The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.

Mathematics[38]

Knowledge centered on concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change

Statistics[39]

A mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data.

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General Reference[40]

• A category of work providing a larger frame of reference to facilitate understanding.

Editor's note

While every effort is made to cite references for all entries, basic sources for General Reference are Wikipedia[41] and Wiktionary[42], well known platforms using MediaWiki, an Open Source application fostering co-creativity that is the purpose of the Nordan Symposia where soul, the locus of relationship, grows through faithful decisions and evolves in personal, planetary, and universal dimensions.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for the generous spirit of the Open Source Community that in itself demonstrates so well the culture we are becoming in fact as we are now in truth.