Search results for "Best of all possible worlds" - New World Encyclopedia
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- by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ... While Lewis's best known and most controversial theory is that ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- scripture, the Rig Veda, contains hymns of praise to thirty-three different ... to "Father Sky," the chief god of the Indo-European pantheon ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 10:11, 29 January 2024
- designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of ... The languages of modal logics usually extend preexisting logics, e ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... All atoms are qualitatively homogeneous, different only in form, shape ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence ... The existence of propositions in the former sense, as well as the ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- who founded the field known as the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy ... :*Leibniz believed that the best of all possible worlds would actualize ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length ... plural: “novelle”) meaning a tale; piece of news. Novellas as a literary ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them, The Consul (1950) and ... Much of the enduring popularity of Menotti's works derives from ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ... The history of conflict theory can be traced back to thinkers such ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- and the Royal Geographic Expedition of 1977-1978, with more than 100 ... primary focus has shifted to the promotion of an awareness of the significance ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- most important English composer and organist of his era. Taverner reflected ... Taverner was the first organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- 1295.jpg|thumb|right|250px|City seal of Zwolle from 1295 with Saint ... as a reptile, and is reputed to be king of serpents. One of the most feared ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his astronomical ... Born in The Hague, Christiaan Huygens was the second son of Constantijn ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... as her own country, living on the shores of Lake Naivasha. It was with ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in ... As a renowned composer of Mass settings and Latin motets as well as ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during ... The Cathedral of Aachen is one of the best-known architectural monuments ...13 KB (1,948 words) - 07:09, 13 June 2023
