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• Original
  ...United States]] and most other countries, only original [[invention]]s are subject to protection. In addition to being original, inventions submitted for a pa ...earch%26meta%3D&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original]
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• Actuality
  ...central themes of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle's] [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. With these two notions, Aristotle [[intends]] to pro ...derstood]] (indeed, if we do not take into account these multiple aspects, philosophy may lose some of its [[universal]] scope). In numerous passages of his Meta
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• African Philosophy
  ...f-absorbed, it can nevertheless provide useful insights into the nature of philosophy in general. ...t are distinctively African; on the latter view, African philosophy is any philosophy done by Africans (or sometimes, by people of African descent).
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• Affection
  ...n (popularly: love, devotion etc); disease; influence; state of [[being]] (philosophy)[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotions-17th18th/LD7Hutcheson.html] an ...d in connection with a perfectly normal subject; a conscious or interested subject introduces variable factors which are probably incalculable.
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• Theory
  ...[The Sciences|sciences]] (both natural and social) and the other used in [[philosophy]], [[mathematics]], [[logic]], and across other fields in the [[humanities] ...or [[understanding]], explaining, and making [[predictions]] about a given subject matter. There are theories in many and varied fields of [[study]], includin
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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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• 102:2 Religion and Reality
  ...[[deceptions]] of [[sophistication]], and the [[delusions]] of [[false]] [[philosophy]]. 102:2.6 [[Unity]] is best found in [[human]] [[experience]] through [[philosophy]]. And while the body of philosophic [[thought]] must ever be founded on [[
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• Oxford Reference Premium
  ...ality which makes it easy to choose between longer or shorter entries from subject reference titles, definitions from English or bilingual dictionaries, and q ...erature, [[Colin Blakemore]] on the Human [[Body]], [[Ted Honderich]] on [[Philosophy]], [[Stanley Wells]] on Shakespeare, and [[M.R.D Foot]] on [[World War II]]
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• Existence
  ...istence''' is the world of which we are aware through our senses, but in [[philosophy]] the word has a more specialized [[meaning]], and is often contrasted with ...ern [[tradition]] of philosophy, the first comprehensive treatments of the subject are from Plato's ''Phaedo'', ''The Republic'', and ''Statesman '' and Arist
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• Kowtowing
  ...e one is required by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism Confucian philosophy] to show great [[reverence]] to one's [[parents]] and grandparents, childre ...spect]]. What one does to oneself has an [[impact]] on the mind. Confucian philosophy held that [[respect]] was important for a society, making [https://en.wikip
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• Tradition
  ...n become accepted as a part of the ancient tradition. A famous book on the subject is ''[https://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521437738 The ...ant in [[Anglophone]] and [[Scandinavia]]n countries, and a "[[Continental philosophy|Continental]]" tradition, dominant in [[German-speaking Europe|German]] and
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• Structure
  ...s or the whole of a document regardless of the medium. Structure forms the subject of the plot, in narrative works. The book by Thomas Kuhn on the history of ...and in the studies that reflect on them, as philosophy and especially the philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, modern mathematics has been defined in a very gener
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• 102:6 The Certainty of Religious Faith
  ...living [[experience]], a [[dynamic]] [[religious]] [[faith]], which is not subject to precise [[definition]]. To [[isolate]] [[part]] of life and call it [[re ...[[actuality]] of [[religious]] [[experience]]. [[Reason]] demands that a [[philosophy]] which cannot find the [[God]] of [[probability]] should be very respectfu
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• Rational
  ...ity", the individual's goals or motives are taken for granted and not made subject to criticism, ethical or otherwise. Thus rationality simply refers to the s ...ato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-historicist/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Historicist Theories of Rationality]
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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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• Falun Gong
  ...oving [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong qigong] exercises with a moral philosophy. Falun Gong emphasizes [[morality]] and the cultivation of [[virtue]] in it ...o have been imprisoned extrajudicially, and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, [[torture]], and other [[coercive]] [[m
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...ama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysics]], [[phenomenology]], [[et ...ophical component. Buddhism is founded on the rejection of certain [[Hindu philosophy|orthodox]] philosophical concepts, in which the Buddha had been instructed
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• Daynal Institute
  ...e is to identify and develop the most helpful resources available in every subject area while incorporating these into the growing bodies of [[literature]] em [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• History of Ideas
  ...ture]]. In [[Sweden]], the history of ideas has been a distinct university subject since the 1930s, when [[Johan Nordström]], a scholar of literature, was ap
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• Simplicity
  ==In Philosophy & Science== ...by [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] is that "Other things being equal simpler theories are better."
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