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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Objectivity
  ...nown as "[[Ockham’s Razor]]" because of its frequent use by the fourteenth century philosopher [[William of Ockham]], whose primary statement of the principle ...t describes a branch of philosophy that originated in the early nineteenth century. [[Gottlob Frege]] was the first to apply it, when he expounded an epistemo
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• Biology
  Biology as a separate [[science]] was developed in the nineteenth century, as scientists discovered that organisms shared fundamental characteristics Up into the [[19th century]], it was commonly believed that life forms could appear spontaneously unde
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• 2012-03-22-The Great Struggle
  ...aware individuals there were on the planet. You can look at the nineteenth century industrial revolution which changed the face of the planet basically and yo
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• Microfinance
  ...o the founders of the European [[credit union]] movement in the nineteenth century (such as [[Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen]]) and the founders of the [[microc
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• Novel
  ...[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and int During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major l
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• Chapter 4 - The Transition Years
  ...o prepare our view of the Master's Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three second Jesus' teachings at Urmia, as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions:
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• Sociology of religion
  ...classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century were greatly interested in [[religion]] and its effects on society. These t ...r, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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• Tarot
  ...he Tarot deck was probably invented in northern [[Italy]] in the fifteenth century. Other scholars who disagree with that theory point to a medieval origin of ...ille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived.
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• Media
  ...ks remained too expensive really to be called a mass-medium for at least a century after that. .../www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html] ; but they took until the nineteenth century to reach a mass-audience directly.
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• Social Sciences
  ===Nineteenth century=== With the late 19th century, attempts to apply equations to statements about [[human behavior]] became
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• Semiotics
  In the nineteenth century, [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] defined what he termed "semiotic" (which he som
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• Violence
  ...erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm Atlas - Wars and Democide of the Twentieth Century] ...es of black men as “violent brutes” that helped excuse the late nineteenth century [[Jim Crow laws]] in the United States,[https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/brut
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• Astronomy
  ...often considered to be synonymous with '''astrophysics'''. Since the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretic ...gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros.html Eclipses and the Saros saros]. In the 2nd century BC, the size and distance of the Moon were estimated by [https://www-groups
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• Discourse
  ...n, and to a formal treatment of a subject at length. In the late twentieth century, the concept was developed in two fields: cultural studies, examining the h ...er-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France, Ithaca/London 1985.
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• Existence
  ...ation 5)). Arnauld's theory was current until the middle of the nineteenth century. ...ng phrase "Socrates". This method became widely accepted in the twentieth century by the analytic school of philosophy.
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• 2007-10-22-Positive Conditioning
  ...remaining tribes of earth and not rushing in like eighteenth or nineteenth century missionaries to convert native cultures without any real grasp of what they
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• Remote Viewing
  ...of psychic [[phenomena]] by major scientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included [[Michael Faraday]], Alfred Russel Wallace, Ruf ...alleged psychics, as had been the case with the studies in the nineteenth century. The initial goal of these studies was to try and determine, by technical m
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• Romance
  ...ose out of more or less spontaneous relationships. But also after the 18th century, illicit relationships took on a more independent role. In bourgeois marria ...'The Art of Courtly Love'', as it is known in English) written in the 12th century lists such rules as "''Marriage is no real excuse for not loving''", "''He
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 14
  ...y replaces the gods on the stage. Now, although it is true that nineteenth-century theatre was merely one form of entertainment among others, we must not let
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