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• Ether
  ...60, when Maxwell began those constructive speculations in [[electrical]] [[theory]], based on the [[influence]] of the physical views of [https://en.wikipedi
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...tinction between the [[fact]] of evolution, the path of evolution, and the theory or mechanism of evolution. ...igin of Species (1859), the groundbreaking work in which he introduced his theory. Darwin was not the first to argue for the fact of evolution, but by marsha
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• Richard Maurice Bucke
  ...besides publishing and delivering professional papers, wrote a book on his theory titled ''Man's Moral Nature'', published in 1879. In 1882 Bucke was electe ...k great pains to try to explain, vivifies [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]'s theory of Nature.
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• Mind Control
  ...versions]] to [[new religious movements]] (NRMs). A third-[[generation]] [[theory]] proposed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Zablocki Ben Zablocki] [[f
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• Psychosomatic Medicine
  ...sis for psychosomatic medicine. Particularly, the umwelt concept and the [[theory]] of [[organism]] by Jakob von Uexküll has been found useful as an approac ...s term, which was largely due to the [[influence]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]] on psychiatric physicians and the inaccurate application by non-specialis
  9 KB (1,286 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Multiverse
  ...his level includes Wheeler's [[Oscillatory universe|oscillating universe]] theory as well.) ...t is widely believed that Everett's interpretation (considered as a formal theory) is a [[conservative extension]] of standard quantum mechanics – tha
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• Sacred
  ...red things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represented the interests of the group, especially unity, which
  4 KB (678 words) - 22:38, 12 December 2020
• Social movement
  ===Culture theory=== [[Culture theory]] builds upon both the political process and resource-mobilization theories
  12 KB (1,712 words) - 02:35, 13 December 2020
• Gender
  ...t movement took the word ''gender'' into their own usage to describe their theory of human nature. ...he end of the decade consensus was achieved among feminists regarding this theory and its terminology.
  17 KB (2,536 words) - 00:07, 13 December 2020
• Dilemma
  ...escribe the relationship between Formalism and Rule-scepticism in juristic theory.[4]
  4 KB (624 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• Oral history
  ...d conferences and publish newsletters and journals devoted to oral history theory and practices.
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• Genius
  ...the normal curves of every measurable human characteristic, one will in [[theory]] perceive a syndrome straddled by "the average man" and flanked by persons ...randomness of this natural ability in the [[population]] as a whole, in [[theory]].
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• Integral Movement
  ...s given a further definition, being made synonymous with Wilber's [[AQAL]] theory [https://aqaljournal.integralinstitute.org/public/Pdf/AQAL_Glossary_01-27-0 ...n of [[consciousness]] has also become a central theme in much of integral theory [https://integral-review.org/current_issue/documents/Gidley,%20Evolution%20
  26 KB (3,693 words) - 00:35, 13 December 2020
• Childhood
  ...have constructed a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory critical theory] of childhood and childhood [[education]] that they have labeled kindercult
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• Quality of Life
  ...] as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Window_Theory Broken Window Theory], which asserts that [[relative]]ly minor problems left unattended (such as
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• Catastrophism
  ...castastrophic extinction into English and published it under the title '''Theory of the Earth'''. He added extensive editorial notes to the [[translation]] ...ventually, Buckland would abandon flood geology in favor of the glaciation theory advocated by Louis Agassiz who had briefly been one of Cuvier's students. A
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• Caesaropapism
  ...stian Church with government. In its extreme form, it is a [[political]] [[theory]] in which the head of [[state]], notably the Emperor ('Caesar', by extensi
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• Objectivity
  ...e first to apply it, when he expounded an epistemological and metaphysical theory contrary to that of [[Immanuel Kant]]. Kant's rationalism attempted to reco ...nd "objectivism" are not synonymous, with objectivism being an ontological theory that incorporates a commitment to the objectivity of objects.
  10 KB (1,488 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
• Trust
  ...perspective in social theory comes from the classic Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman. Coleman offers a four-part definition: * In the context of [[Information theory]] Ed Gerck defines and contrasts trust with social functions such as [https
  13 KB (1,926 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• Sovereignty
  ...n an attempt, argues [[Giorgio Agamben]], to counter [[Walter Benjamin]]'s theory of [[violence]] as radically disjoint from law. [[Georges Bataille]]'s hete For instance, in theory, both the [[People's Republic of China]] and the [[Republic of China]] cons
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