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• Modern Philosophy
  ...ence]]. Major figures in this line of thought are John [[Locke]], George [[Berkeley]], and David [[Hume]]. (These are retrospective categories, for which [[Kan ...nd it was in this climate, that figures such as [[Bertrand Russell]] and [[George Edward Moore]] began moving the direction that became [[analytic philosophy
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• Idealism
  ...it seems clear that Plato is not, at any rate, "subjective" idealist, like Berkeley. ...f knowing "external objects"--the problem that concerned Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and other modern philosophers. But the Forms that the Cave-dwellers are ig
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• Reality
  ...alism]]. Phenomenalism differs from Berkeleyan idealism primarily in that Berkeley believed that minds, or souls, are not merely ideas nor made up of ideas, w
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• David Ray Griffin
  ...Hartshorne]]. He is also a leading exponent of theories questioning the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush Administration]]'s account of the [[September 1 ...s delivered by [[Paul Tillich]] at the [[Graduate Theological Union]] in [[Berkeley, California]]. At this time, Griffin made his decision to focus on philoso
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• Dialogue
  ...literature the dialogue did not see extensive use until [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] employed it, in [[1713]], for his Platonic treatise, ''[[Three Dialogs be ...in the [[20th century]]. Authors who have recently employed it include [[George Santayana]], in his eminent ''Dialogues in Limbo'' (1926, 2nd ed. 1948; thi
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• Ashtar Command
  ...y early [[UFO]] contactee [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel George Van Tassel], on 18 July 1952. * Denzler, Brenda (2001), The lure of the edge, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520224322, https://www.worldcat.o
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• Noumenon
  ...]]) would render those same qualities unobservable and even unimaginable. Berkeley called this philosophy [[immaterialism]]. Essentially there could be no suc
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• Philosophy
  ...was developed as an alternative to skepticism by [[John Locke]], [[George Berkeley]] and others. It should be mentioned that [[John Locke]], [[Thomas Hobbes]
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• Materialism
  ...rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb2c23.htm] As [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] wrote "I acknowledge it is possible we might perceive all things just as ...rgument for [[idealism]], such as those of [[Hegel]] and [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] is ''ipso facto'' an argument against materialism. Matter can be argued t
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• Mythology
  ...cases recorded pictorially." Graves was deeply influenced by Sir [[James George Frazer]]'s mythography ''[[The Golden Bough]],'' and he would have agreed t *[[James George Frazer]], ''[[The Golden Bough]]'' (1890).
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• Metaphysics
  ...sweepingly eliminated in favor of the mental. Idealists, such as [[George Berkeley]], claim that material objects do not exist unless perceived and only as pe ...rris, E. E. (1965). ''The Foundations of Metaphysics in Science''. London: George Allen and Unwin.
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• Prayer
  ...gy|anthropologists]], such as Sir [[Edward Burnett Tylor]] and Sir [[James George Frazer]], believed that the earliest intelligent modern humans practiced so # George Barton Cutten, Speaking with Tongues Historically and Psychologically Consi
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• Johann Georg Hamann
  ...tinomies]] that Kant raises in his Critique. Sharing Hume's empiricism and Berkeley's suspicion of universals and abstract terms, he concludes: “Hence it hap ...Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
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• Samuel Johnson
  ...she gave birth, a "man-midwife" and a surgeon of "great reputation" named George Hector was brought in to assist. He did not cry and, with doubts surroundin ...During this time, he befriended Edmund Hector, nephew of his "man-midwife" George Hector, and John Taylor, with whom he remained in contact for the rest of h
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• Anthropology
  ...supernatural beings (as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc.). James George Frazer, a Scottish scholar with a broad knowledge of Classics, also concern ...agency|Government department]]: the [[Geological Survey of Canada]], and [[George Mercer Dawson]] (director in 1895). Dawson's support for anthropology creat
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• Causality
  # ''If George Bush is president of the United States in 2004, then Germany is in Europe.' # ''If George Washington is president of the United States in 2004, then Germany is in Eu
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• Information science
  In [[1854]] [[George Boole]] published ‘‘An Investigation into Laws of Thought...,’’ whi ...icles/Berkeley.html Information science at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s: a memoir of student days]
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• Sacred Space
  ...f a Buddhist Monument, edited by Luis O. Gómez and Hiram W. Woodward, Jr. (Berkeley, 1981). Borobudur is both a mandala and a stupa. For the former, see ...chitecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, edited by George Michell (London, 1978).
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• Scientific Method
  ..." page 131, in the section on 'Modern [[heuristic]]'-- the mathematician [[George Polya]] (1957), ''[[How to solve it]]'', Second edition. ...s: Essays in the Philosophy of Science'', University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA, 1992.
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• States of Consciousness
  ...and Healing in Southeast Asia Today. 2d rev. and expanded ed. Bangkok and Berkeley, Calif., 1997. ...cientific and Medical Writings of F. A. Mesmer. Translated and compiled by George Bloch. Los Altos, Calif., 1980.
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