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- illusion to take place, but there are a number of theories. One of the most ... (or "carpentered world") theory. Interestingly enough, the ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- In recursion theory and computational complexity theory, a decision ... The field of computational complexity theory categorizes decidable ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- In cosmology, the Steady State theory (also known as the Infinite ... The Steady State Theory of Bondi, Gold and Hoyle was inspired by the ...10 KB (1,466 words) - 19:55, 9 February 2023
- of the mid-twentieth century. His book Theory of Monopolistic Competition ... Chamberlin published his book The Theory of Monopolistic Competition ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified ... to be a flaw because reducing the number of axioms of a system to ...10 KB (1,582 words) - 07:21, 23 August 2023
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- work in abstract algebra, algebraic number theory, and laid the foundations ... of Göttingen. Dedekind studied number theory under Moritz Stern. Gauss ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- however 300 Hz is not a whole number octave above 100 Hz, despite ... are generally used only in musical set theory or atonal theory. Thus all ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- examples of simple yet deep theorems in number theory and combinatorics, among ... by representing theorems about basic number theory as expressions in a formal ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- develops theories and axioms (e.g. field theory, group theory, topology, ... to prove many important facts about number theory and they allowed Gödel ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory of Frege leads to a contradiction. ... The paradox drove Russell to develop type theory and Ernst Zermelo to develop ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- thirty years. He is most famous for his theory of modal realism, but also ... While Lewis's best known and most controversial theory is that ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- Moreover, one tries to reduce the number of different interaction ... which was described by a mathematical theory. In ancient times, Aristotle ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 09:25, 18 October 2022
- The adoption of the term "nucleus" to atomic theory, however ... element, every atom has a constant number of protons in the nucleus ...13 KB (1,903 words) - 06:57, 21 August 2023
- is a subject of the study in the field of proof theory. ... called theorems as in mathematics. Proof theory studies this notion of proof ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- Pythagoreans as the name of the beginning number of a series, from which all ... of the fundamental units of existence. His theory was an alternative to the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- any reasonable relativistic quantum field theory, particles with integer spin ... in conjunction with Albert Einstein, the theory characterizing such particles ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- Atoms are generally classified by their atomic number, which corresponds ... The mass number, atomic mass number, or nucleon number of an element ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- force.[http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/hadrons.html Hadrons] Stanford ... a hadron may contain an indefinite number of virtual quarks, antiquarks ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical theory. Horkheimer was critical ... of Marxism: Marxism as scientific theory in the sense that social ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- Sharaku left a large number of masterpieces, but the dates of his ... and presence is very strong. The presumed number of Sharaku's works is ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 13:17, 27 January 2023
- is clearly flawed: an infinitesimal is a number whose modulus is less than ... of this theorem is that if there is a number system in which it is true ...9 KB (1,387 words) - 22:44, 5 February 2023
- He also published a book on Plato's theory of ideas (or forms) that ... the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people. But, Ross objected ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- arise from an imbalance in the total number of electrons and protons ... were only described by the classical theory of electrodynamics and there ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- previously accepted "wages-fund" theory that wages were based on ... During his tenancy at MIT, the number of students increased from ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- to the development of the modern theory of social evolution. Service ... cultural relativism. Service and a number of other students, among ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- and advanced the "abstinence" theory of profit. He was strong ... Senior introduced the word “abstinence” into economic theory. ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- There is a theory that periodic (every about 30 million years) disturbances ... There is also a theory of a denser, inner part of the Oort cloud coined ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- time on. Parsons advocated the "grand theory" approach, encompassing ... Parsons was an advocate of "grand theory," an attempt to ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- to make places available for an increasing number of students, but also to ... in spirit, stressing the subjectivist theory of value and reflecting the ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- understanding of human nature, offered a number of significant advances. ... are his method of factor analysis, his theory of intelligence, and his ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
- His approach refuted the "labor theory" of value, showing that ... of economics under a reconstructed price theory in his "Preface" ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Frisch's work advanced economics in a number of aspects: He formalized ... He published several papers in probability theory, beginning teaching at the ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is one of ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts ... like relation between any claim from the theory in order to be reduced (chemistry ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Philolaus followed Pythagorean number theory, and held that the elementary ... nine bodies, in accordance with his number theory he conceived a tenth ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- The term "fossil fuels" is based on the widely accepted ... This process of formation is known as the biogenic theory. An opposing ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings ... for instance, structuralism and prototype theory. The former goes back to ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- without social recognition (natural rights theory) and those that believe that ... of rights then come from normative theory, and more specifically normative ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- detailed explanation, see quantum field theory. Following the convention ... have been catalogued in a quantum field theory called the Standard Model ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- of the first works on general equilibrium theory, Hicks showed that value ... to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory. ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
- of functions frequently encountered in number theory were λ-definable, and ... *--------, 1936. "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- The usual example of a causally deterministic theory is Newtonian ... Philosophers have long been preoccupied with using the least number ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- a neutron and a neutrino. As a result, the number of protons within the nucleus ... the proton is changed to a neutron, the number of neutrons increases by ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- ===Correspondence theory of truth=== these augments is a "correspondence theory of truth." When the ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- it is a subatomic particle with a baryon number of 1. Baryons are a subset ... ), where "spin" refers to the angular momentum quantum number ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- work in the field of corporate finance theory. Miller also co-authored ... Cost of Capital, Corporate Finance and the Theory of Investment," first ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- clarify the implications of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, and ... in the form of a paper titled "On the Theory of Lightning Conductors, ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- years of birth and death. Only a limited number of fragments survive in the ... The theory of “qi” developed over the centuries and became a foundation ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- a similar proposal—the basis for his theory of relativity. It appears ... in terms of James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 15:45, 6 November 2022
- of England with his "Heartland Theory" in 1904. Mackinder ... The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- commissions from major orchestras and a number of these works were premiered ... Etler is also the author of Making Music: An Introduction to Theory ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- contributions laid the foundation for the theory of capital, and in later ... nature of capital and its expansion, the theory of wages, prices, and interest ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
- capacity to recognize. Price’s theory led him to make logical propositions ... he authored were Perception, Hume's Theory of the External World, Belief ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal ... of the International Symposium of the Theory of Models, Berkeley, 1963 ...5 KB (794 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- on the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth (1838 [1938]). ... suited for the foundation of a scientific theory (1838:10). ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- commensurable because a week is a constant number of minutes (10080), so that ... describe or evaluate observations independently of theory. ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such ... to be contrasted with another ethical theory which denies it, namely, ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical ... and was instrumental in the creation of a number of international centers ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, is associated with instinctual ... in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: "We have ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- same year, The Sporting News placed him at number 13—and the highest-ranking ... I believe he could have been the number one player at any position ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 13:38, 2 February 2024
- conducted seminal research on systems theory, as well as being active ... was able to integrate concepts from game theory, physics, linguistics, cybernetics ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- The wave theory of light was current during Doppler's time. This ... Doppler continued to elaborate on his theory, as well as publishing ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- == Theory of Operation == Image:Pulley0.png|Diagram 1 - A basic equation ... The simplest theory of operation for a pulley system assumes that ...10 KB (1,745 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- Clifford developed a type of Darwinian theory of ethics within an atheistic ... at Cambridge whose membership included a number of British intellectuals ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- in space is roughly defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to ... In the physical world, according to the theory of relativity the fourth ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- Normative ethics, also known as normative theory, or moral theory, intends ... of morality, as in the divine command theory in meta-ethics today. ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... in advancing the understanding of how game theory applies to certain types ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ... Schlick's Konstatierungen had a number of characteristics: Their ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... of any observer, such as shape, extension, number, solidity, and volume. ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- straight lines and line segments. A large number of other curves have been ... curves of genus one studied in number theory and which have important ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- This report concluded that a considerable number of Caucasian families had ... . He also started to work on sociological theory, the work which culminated ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ... It is easy to come up with a theory about nature, hard to come ...18 KB (2,732 words) - 14:42, 5 December 2023
- for her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions ... called the "century of syntactic theory" as far as linguistics ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- Women. He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting (画论), Introduction ... detailed, and lifelike. His Graphic Theory later became a basic theory ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- discoveries advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... inexhaustible range of science, a great number of questions of public utility ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- Filmer developed a political theory, based on natural law, which equated ... Filmer's political theory was based on natural law. He believed ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- == Theory == arms is the morally correct step. Just War theory promotes the view that war ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- and brightness (amplitude/intensity—number of photons of light). Some ... The first was the "emission theory," which maintained that ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- six ligands in an octahedral geometry. The theory allows one to understand ... begins with a focus on "coordination number," the number of ligands ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Value-pluralism is a position in metaethics, rather than a theory ... William James anticipated Berlin’s theory of value-pluralism in ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often ... on induction, pragmatism, and probability theory have become more popular ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- on complex analysis. In modern control theory textbooks, the Cauchy argument ... remained there, continuing to work on the theory of series. As late as the ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- the class of atoms which contain the same number of protons. An older definition ... The atomic number of an element or atom, Z, is equal to the number ...10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing ... stories up' and referred to a number of books that he hadn't ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- he is known primarily for his moral theory and his study of aesthetics ... known for his contributions to moral theory and the field of aesthetics ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with ... aim is the greatest good for the greatest number, although situational ethics ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related ... embedded space as a p-brane where p is the number of dimensions; thus a surface ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- hold that the only valid economic theory is logically derived from ... on the idea that logical consistency of a theory is more important that any ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). first achieved notoriety because of his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759 ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- Over a thousand bodies are buried at the Qumran cemetery. One theory ... More recently the theory of Qumran being a religious settlement has ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- This histogram shows the number of cases per unit interval so that ... * Bode plots are used in Control Theory. * The Dalitz plot is a scatterplot ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- also includes various results in number theory, such as the connection ... the ancient Greek version of elementary number theory. The Elements is the ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- come to be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in ... the spiritual aspect of mind and reifies a theory of psychological dysfunction—the ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- amount of pleasure for the greatest number of sentient beings," ... amount of pleasure for the greatest number of sentient beings in fact ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- new theories about him. Shinran’s theory of Buddhism came from deep ... the Jodo-shu (Pure Land School). Honen’s theory of Buddhism was that Nembutsu ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- Many electronic components are on the market today. A number of them ... The number of different analog circuits so far devised is huge, especially ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes ... Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
