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• Scientific Method
  ==Elements of scientific method== The essential elements of a scientific method are [[operation (mathematics)|operation]]s, [[observ
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• Conservatism
  ...lso sympathized with some of the aims of the [[American Revolution]]. This classical conservative tradition often insists that conservatism has no ideology, in Many forms of conservatism incorporate elements of other [[ideology|ideologies]] and philosophies. In turn, conservatism ha
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• Spiritual economy
  ...at capitalism and market economics grew out of materialist philosophy that classical physics has given us. But this is myopic thinking of people who have missed The basic elements of the developing science within the primacy of consciousness are as follow
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• Relativity
  ...55), is an extension and generalization of the corresponding principles in classical, or Newtonian, [[mechanics]]. ...stulates a particular spatial structure and, beginning with the ''Euclid's Elements'', the implications of that [[structure]] for geometrical figures were stud
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• Metaphor
  ...bove would state that "LIFE IS THEATRE". In a [[conceptual metaphor]] the elements of an extended metaphor constitute the metaphor's mapping--in the Shakespea ...t of something is chosen to represent the whole so as to highlight certain elements of the whole. For example "a pair of ragged claws" represents a crab in [[T
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• Gifford Lectures
  ....wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Pelikan Jaroslav Pelikan] ''Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter W ...ipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_Ramsay William Mitchell Ramsay] ''Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization'', ISBN 0-89005-173-9
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• Force
  # Land, Helen The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements (1998) # Corbell, H.C.; Philip Stehle (1994). Classical Mechanics p 28,. New York: Dover publications. ISBN 0-486-68063-0.
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• Languages and Literature
  ...Esperanto]], was created by [[L. L. Zamenhof]] as a compilation of various elements of different languages, and is supposed to be an easy-to-learn language for ...Its classification of the alphabet into [[consonant]]s and [[vowel]]s, and elements like nouns, verbs, vowels and consonants which he put into classes, were al
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• Atlantis
  ...ssible existence of a genuine Atlantis was actively discussed throughout [[classical antiquity]], but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later ...d parts of the continent.''Timaeus'' 24e–25a, R. G. Bury translation (Loeb Classical Library).
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• Justice
  Some theorists, such as the classical Greeks, conceive of justice as a [[virtue]]—a property of people, and onl ...e involves them. But even then, such demands as human rights would only be elements in the calculation of overall welfare, not uncrossable barriers to action.
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• Creation
  ...al and theistic [[belief]] systems. The problem can be summarized as three classical [[paradox]]es. These paradoxes (discussed by both [[Kierkegaard]] and [[Lei However, some of the metaphysical principles used to formulate these classical paradoxes no longer enjoy an unchallenged status as laws of thought. For in
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• Geography
  ...haracter of a particular region which consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also to regionalization which covers the proper techniqu ...rrelationships are key to this synoptic science, [[map]]s are a key tool. Classical [[cartography]] has been joined by a more modern approach to geographical [
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• The Sciences
  From classical times until the advent of the modern era, "philosophy" was roughly divided ...Within these categories are specialized scientific fields that can include elements of other scientific disciplines but often possess their own terminology and
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• 2016-03-17-Individual Duty in a Democracy
  ...easier. Or it can be the other way, emphasizing the negative. There’s the classical instance of old folks telling about how hard it was when they were youngste ...sermon on the text. Almost all of the religions of the world have these elements in them.
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• Culture
  ...tivities such as [[museum]]-caliber [[art]] and [[European classical music|classical music]], and the word ''cultured'' described people who knew about, and too ...ced by working-class people) honestly expresses a natural way of life, and classical music seems superficial and decadent. Equally, this view often portrays [[I
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• Sovereignty
  ...ues Derrida]] of a kind of "antisovereignty". Therefore, anarchists join a classical conception of the individual as sovereign of himself, which forms the basis ...sing the power of a Sovereign is sufficient; sovereignty requires ''both'' elements.
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• Cultural
  ...tivities such as [[museum]]-caliber [[art]] and [[European classical music|classical music]], and the word ''cultured'' described people who knew about, and too ...ced by working-class people) honestly expresses a natural way of life, and classical music seems superficial and decadent. Equally, this view often portrays [[I
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• Science
  From classical times until the advent of the modern era, "philosophy" was roughly divided ...Within these categories are specialized scientific fields that can include elements of other scientific disciplines but often possess their own terminology and
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• Magic
  === Classical antiquity === ...ed in France and Germany. The western traditions acknowledging the natural elements, the seasons, and the practitioner's relationship with the Earth, Gaia, or
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...Moreover, symptoms (such as [[phobia]]s and compulsions) each represented elements of some drive wish (sexual and/or aggressive), superego (guilt), anxiety, [ ...mental lives. There has also been considerable work done on consolidating elements of conflicting theory (cf. the work of Theodore Dorpat, B. Killingmo, and S
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...s in diverse contexts, ranging from Confucius to Plato and Aristotle, from classical Jewish literature to the New Testament. He also considers medieval, Reforma ...yond the felt [[limitations]] of "a foul stinking lump of himself," as the classical British text of spiritual instruction, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C
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• Heresy
  The term '''heresy''' derives from the [[Greek]] hairesis. In classical Greek this [[word]] has a variety of [[meanings]], all based on the verb ha ...sented here, shows in [[archetypal]] [[manner|fashion]] the characteristic elements in the Christian understanding of heresy. This understanding was already pr
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• Perfection
  prick (also dot, point) of perfectionn. [after post-classical [[Latin]] punctus perfectionis (14th cent.)] (in musical notation) a dot or ...from statistical physics. Thus, the equation of state of a real gas within classical limits assumes the form of the equation of state of a perfect gas. That is,
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• Creativity
  Believers in this trinity hold all three elements necessary in [[business]] and can identify them all in "truly creative" [[C ...tive material available for processing, increasing the number of cognitive elements available for association;
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• Anthropology
  ...e text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. ...ncerned himself with describing and mapping the distribution of particular elements of culture, rather than with the larger function, and generally seemed to a
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• Jesus Christ Superstar
  ...musical arrangements are often multi-layered, featuring rock and classical elements, and contain many abruptly shifting dynamics and time signatures.
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• Mysticism
  ...ement within [[Islam]]. [[Gnosticism]] refers to various mystical sects of classical / late antiquity that were influenced by [[Platonism]], [[Judaism]] and [[C ...nd [[Pythagoras]], and to a lesser extent [[Socrates]], had clear mystical elements in their teachings; many of the great Christian mystics were also prominent
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...e found in Kant’s new approach to questions about teleology, reformulating elements of Kant’s philosophy in a radical application to organic life, nature and ...Günter Zöller (eds.), Figuring the Self: Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical German Philosophy, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1997, pp. .
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• Harmony
  1. Combination or adaptation of parts, elements, or related [[things]], so as to form a consistent and orderly whole; agree ...he combining of notes simultaneously was not a part of musical practice in classical antiquity: harmonia was merely a means of codifying the relationship betwee
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• Chakra
  ...d with multiple physiological functions, an aspect of [[consciousness]], a classical element, and other distinguishing characteristics. They are visualized as l ...qualities, such as color of influence (from the 7 rays of spectrum light), elements (such as earth, air, water & ether), body sense (such as touch, taste, and
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• Sacred Space
  ...he estuaries of India's holy rivers have a [[beauty]] and a power that are elements of their religious [[dimension]]. But such qualities of place are not inevi ...dying the contours of the land and the balance of waters, winds, and other elements.
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 20
  The alchemists called those elements needed for the Great Work the materia prima. Paracelsus' description of thi ...ves. This is why there is no longer any such thing as a work of art in the classical sense of the word. Nor can there be such a thing. So much the better. Poetr
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• Community
  In a seminal 1986 study, McMillan and Chavis identify four elements of "sense of community": 1) membership, 2) influence, 3) integration and fu ...es (or [[Ideology|ideologies]]) began in the late 20th century, opposing [[classical liberalism]] and [[capitalism]] while advocating phenomena such as civil so
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• Nature
  ...iving beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the [[lithosphere]] (rocks), [[hydrosphere]] (water), and [[atmosphere]] A common classical idea of beautiful art involves the word [[mimesis]], the imitation of natur
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• Human Being
  ...slam|Muslim]] empires. In Europe, the rediscovery of [[classical antiquity|classical]] learning and inventions such as the [[printing press]] led to the [[Renai ...s characterized as a "[[war of liberation]]", while a war between internal elements of a state is a [[civil war]]. Full scale pitched-battle wars between adver
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• History of the Concept of Mind, v.1-Chap.4
  Liber de causis, was largely excerpted from Proclus’ Elements of Theology. One stance, but the classical scholars who decried his ignorance of Greek antiquity and
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• Monotheism
  ...monotheism and the associated concept of absolute good and evil emerges in Classical Antiquity, notably with [[Plato]] (c.f. Euthyphro dilemma), elaborated into ...mpasses many individuals), nor one as in an object that is made up of many elements, nor as a single simple object that is infinitely divisible. Rather, God is
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 18
  ...subjectivity (1). Once they abandon their initial extremism, revolutionary elements become irremediably reformist. The well-nigh general abandonment of the rev ...ous transcendence and abstraction. The interregnum between the collapse of classical philosophy and the erection of the Christian myth saw an unprecedented effe
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• Synoetics and Self: The Construction of Planetary Identity as an Aesthetic Oeuvre
  Clark and Chalmers model, specific elements of the external world are inter- Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed. D. Chalmers), New York and Oxford:
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• Free Will
  ...t determinism is compatible with free will. A common strategy employed by "classical compatibilists", such as [[Thomas Hobbes]], is to claim that a person acts ...t of momentary elements into another one, except the [connection] of those elements."<ref name="Gier" /> Buddhists believe in neither absolute free will, nor d
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