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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known as indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and ...
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  • In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" ...
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  • objects as logical constructs out of sense-data or ideas. ... Objects are logical constructions out of sense-data or ideas. ...
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  • A chart or graph is a type of information graphic or graphic organizer that represents tabular numeric data or functions. Charts often make it ...
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  • category:image wanted MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. The MARC standards ...
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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary ... According to Locke and Descartes, some sense-data, namely the sense ...
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  • Chauncey Wright (September 10, 1830 - September 12, 1875), American philosopher and mathematician, was an early influence on the American pragmatists ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology recidivism in criminology and penology|recidivism in medicine|Recidivism ...
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  • In linguistics, syntax (The word originates from the Greek words συν (syn), meaning "co-" or "together," and τάξις ...
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  • Bernardino Telesio (1509 – 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized medieval ...
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  • Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability to detect electromagnetic energy within the visible range (light) by ...
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  • Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy sets. The concept of fuzzy sets provides a convenient way to represent various ...
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  • The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each of which has two methyl functional groups attached to the benzene ring. ...
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  • Random access memory (also hyphenated as random-access memory), usually known by its acronym RAM, is a class of media used in computers for data ...
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  • the relation between the notion of sense-data and physical objects. In ... the relationship between the notion of sense-data and physical objects. He ...
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  • and Sensibilia, Austin famously criticized sense-data theories of perception, particularly that of Alfred Jules Ayer in The Foundations of Empirical ...
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  • Computer software is a program that enables a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware ...
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  • Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and how they can be implemented in computer systems. ...
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  • Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe. It involves studies of the physical properties (luminosity ...
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  • DVD (a common initialism for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data ...
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  • category:image wanted For categorization of information or knowledge, see Library classification Categorization is the process in which ideas ...
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  • Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order ...
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  • Charlie Dunbar Broad (known as C.D. Broad) (December 30, 1887 - March 11, 1971) was an English analytic philosopher who was concerned with, and ...
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  • The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception ...
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  • Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group. Its approximate chemical formula is K(Mg, Fe)3AlSi3O10(F, OH)2. This mineral ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Kroeber, Alfred L. [[Image:ishi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Anthropologist Alfred L. ...
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  • In scientific inquiry, an experiment (from the Latin term ex- periri, meaning "of (or from) trying") is a means of investigating the ...
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  • statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former must ... sentences about physical objects into sense-data, such sentences were to ...
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  • Equilibrioception or sense of balance is one of the physiological senses. Broadly defined, a sense is a mechanism or faculty by which a living ...
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  • category:image wanted Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). The term is ...
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  • Read-only memory, usually known by its acronym ROM, is a class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices. In its strictest ...
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  • Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...
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  • Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...
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  • Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...
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  • A hard disk drive (HDD), also known as a hard disk or hard drive, is a data storage device used in many types of electronic equipment including ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Gall, Franz Joseph [[Image:Franz_Joseph_Gall.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Joseph Gall]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") is a written legal document ...
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  • The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)," constitutes the section ...
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  • In logic, a theorem is formally meant to be a formula that can be transformed by applying inferential rules to axioms in a deductive system. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Lévi-Strauss, Claude [[Image:Levi-strauss 260.jpg|thumb|Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005]] ...
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  • Category:Economists Leontief, Wassily Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) has been associated with the quantitative economics ...
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  • The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy which flourished during the fourth and early third centuries B.C.E ...
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  • An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication that contains tabular information in a particular field organized according ...
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  • Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures ...
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  • category:image wanted Impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure of citations in science and social science journals. It is frequently ...
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  • Antennae (singular antenna) are paired appendages connected to the anterior-most segments of arthropods. In crustaceans, they are present on ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce ...
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  • article, “Has Austin Refuted the Sense-Data Theory?” negation, the terminology of sense-data, basic propositions, phenomenalism ...
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  • In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that is, the change of velocity with time. An object is said to undergo ...
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  • Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on what one already knows or on what one assumes. The statement(s) given as evidence ...
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  • Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...
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  • The terms form and matter describe a basic duality in all existence, between the essence or "whatness" of a thing (form) and the stuff ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) refers to an educational system of instruction performed ...
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  • Botanically, a nut is a hard, indehiscent (not opening to discharge seeds), simple, dry fruit, whereby the plant's ovary wall becomes very ...
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  • Category:Public In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous ...
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  • Synthesis (from ancient Greek σύνθεσις , σύν (with) and θεσις, placing) is commonly understood to be an integration of two or ...
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  • Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In ...
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  • In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task that, given an initial ...
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  • Category:Public Kepler, Johannes {{Infobox_Biography | subject_name=Johannes Kepler | image_name=JKepler.jpg | image_caption= | dead=dead | ...
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  • category:image wanted Generally, two quantities are commensurable if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a distance ...
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  • The terms, denotation and connotation, are used to convey and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a word. A ...
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  • category:image wanted Cyberethics, also referred to as internet ethics, is a branch of applied ethics that studies ethical questions and moral ...
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  • In geology, a fault (or fault line) is a planar rock fracture that shows evidence of relative movement. Given that faults do not usually consist ...
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  • Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد ...
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  • Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 – August 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment ...
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  • A hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees ...
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  • category:image wanted Synergy (from the Greek synergos, συνεργός meaning working together, circa 1660) refers to the phenomenon in which ...
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  • The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – 1713) was an English philosopher and a grandson of the First Earl of Shaftesbury ...
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  • A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:The-Winged-Horse.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Pegasus ...
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  • George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...
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  • Magnetite is a ferromagnetic mineral with the chemical formula Fe3O4and the common chemical name ferrous-ferric oxide, which indicates the mineral ...
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  • Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the principles of biology ...
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  • In particle physics, a quark is one of the elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. Elementary particles ...
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  • Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was a British statistician, evolutionary biologist ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools" of economics ...
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  • Hominidae is a taxonomic family of primates that today is commonly considered to include extant (living) and extinct humans, chimpanzees, gorillas ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward-looking self ...
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  • In recursion theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a yes-or-no question on specified sets of inputs. For example ...
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  • Neoptera is a major taxonomic group of insects that includes almost all the winged insects and specifically those considered to be related by ...
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  • Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure a nation's ...
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  • Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection ...
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  • The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Parsons, Talcott Category:Public Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist who established ...
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  • Thomas Reid (April 26, 1710 – October 7, 1796), Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of the Scottish School ...
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  • A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible ...
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  • Category:Public Subjective idealism is a philosophical view based on the idea that nothing exists except through a perceiving mind. In this view ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The ...
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  • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780) was a Roman Catholic Abbé and a leading philosopher and psychologist of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Philosophy [[Image:Hogarth-satire-on-false-pespective-1753.jpg|thumb|right ...
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  • Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher. He is the namesake for the "Mach number ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Park, Robert E. Robert Ezra Park (February 14, 1864 – February 7, 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the ...
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  • category:image wanted In philosophy and logic, proposition refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence or ...
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  • Dugald Stewart (November 22, 1753 - June 11, 1828), was a Scottish mathematician and philosopher, and a spokesman for the Scottish school of ...
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  • John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent ...
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