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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
- paradox is an unintuitive outcome of economic theory. The etymology ... being the founder of dialectic, produced a number of paradoxes that purport ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- == Belief as a psychological theory == Mainstream psychology and related ... called the "mental sentence theory," in this conception ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- From the 1770s until the 1850s, the caloric theory was the commonly ... In the following decades, the caloric theory was heatedly debated ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- *The Column Length is proportional to the number of theoretical plates ... == Chromatography theory == Chromatography is a separation method that ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... it cannot be a superset of ordinary set theory since membership functions ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- contribution to the knowledge of method, theory, and policy in economics. ... As a precursor of Austrian economic theory, Cantillon was the first ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- basic components, an essentially unlimited number of composite particles can ... With the development of quantum theory, chemistry began to be explained ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- prompting the Averroists to develop a theory of “double truths,” one ... == The Theory of “Averroism”== During the later half of the thirteenth ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- foundation by deriving it from a limited number of axioms; this attempt is ... of Berlin with a dissertation on probability theory. The same year ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- parallel, diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical ... the way the brain processes angles. This theory suggests that the brain exaggerates ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- of two electrons, corresponding to the number of electrons in the helium ... of participating atoms. In valence bond theory, molecular geometries are ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- to the development of statistical theory. He was the first to apply ... the writing with passages in a number of languages, including Latin ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- Atoms from Democritus to Dalton] Atomic Theory and Structure. Retrieved ... at a relatively great distance by a number of electrons to balance the ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- quot; along with Duns Scotus, his opposite number from the realist camp, one ... or forms—a position held by Plato's theory of the forms among many others ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- In 1807, Fourier published the first account of his theory of heat ... in 1822 under the title The Analytic Theory of Heat. In this exposition ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- lifetime, his contributions to economic theory later came to be studied ... as well as his main ideas on economic theory (subjectivist theory of value ...17 KB (2,726 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- of organisms. With the advent of the theory of descent with modification ... as some proposed superorders. Note that a number of taxonomies exist, including ...10 KB (1,256 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- as “that which gives us the largest number of ideas in the shortest ... Provinces. During his career, he wrote a number of essays and dialogues on ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- The logical positivists embraced a theory of the linguistic meaning ... This aspect of normative ethics, the theory of right action, is an investigation ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- nature, and partly to the fact that his theory makes sense to the general ... of his work. Fortunately, however, a number of his ideas were taken up ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 20:46, 1 April 2024
- 22 years; in its sutras he explained the theory of the Emptiness. The last ... Zhiyi (Chihi) formulated this theory of five stages. Nichiren followed ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- writer who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He ... that was easy to read. He also published a number of philosophical works such ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... spheres, resulting in critical theory. The Frankfurt School can be ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 1 and precedes 3. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- The influence of Malthus' theories was substantial. His theory ... economic advantage, since it increased the number of workers available to the ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- While excavating the Knossos site in 1900, Evans discovered a number ... The disc, which contains a number of pictographic signs arranged in ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- famous for his application of probability theory to the study of molecules ... In this same year, he published his first paper on the kinetic theory ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Chemical bonding theory explains one aspect of the relational nature ... Bond order is a number used to indicate the number of pairs of electrons ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- the field of motivation and especially his theory of people's "need ... For his accomplishments, he received a number of honorary degrees and awards ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its nucleus ... is zero, because it is favorable for the number of electrons in every atom ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- and invariable. They are infinite in number and exist in every part of ... seems not to have stated explicitly, the theory that nature is the work of ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- For example, he is best known for his theory of cognitive dissonance, ... which developed Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954). ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- human wants as the foundation of economic theory. He denounced the relics ... human wants as the foundation of economic theory, his emphasis on labor as ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- visual images synthetically. Computability theory helps us understand what ... the forerunner to modern formal language theory and a precursor to computing ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- in Vienna—each scholar developed the theory of marginal utility to understand ... two pioneers in the development of atomic theory and the theory of molecular ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- , a slim volume about eudaemonism, the theory that happiness is the highest ... advanced, among other things, a logical theory of symbolism and a "picture ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- a measure of self-government. List's theory of "national economics ... infallibility of the old (free market) theory" (List 1827). In some ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- such as artificial intelligence, database theory, and game theory. ... operators that are followed by a multiple number of formulas rather than by ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- statements such as “Every natural number has a successor,” “Some ... : Every natural number is greater than –1. This quantified statement ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- Another classic in play theory is Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois ... is Jesper Juul who works on both pure play theory and the application of this ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- chief interests lay in mathematics and music theory. Today, he is known in mathematics in connection with a formula for a certain set of prime numbers: ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- method of elimination, the other on the number of integrals of an equation ... Joseph Louis Lagrange, whose lectures on the theory of functions Poisson ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- Psychology, in which he introduced his theory of instincts, was published ... McDougall wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, particularly ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- His contributions to science include: a theory describing the relationship ... * Weil, André. 1989. Prehistory of the Zeta-Function. In Number Theory ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- should not be confused with information theory, the mathematical study of ... qualifications in, or experience of, a number of other disciplines have ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ... from the 1850s to the 1950s. The social theory developed consequently from ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set ... wrote several textbooks and many papers, a number of them pathbreaking, but ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- in the branch of mathematics known as set theory to represent sets and their ... a construction for Venn diagrams with any number of curves, where each successive ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- and melodic language affected how music theory and composition were later taught. ... leading to the resignation of a number of faculty members. This ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- and "mind control," receiving a number of honors for her work. She ... et al. The brief characterized the theory of brainwashing as not scientifically ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- the equivalence principle, a pillar of the theory of general relativity. The ... Einstein developed his general theory of relativity by working on ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- well as hydrogen; disproved the phlogiston theory;explained combustion and ... of combustion replaced the phlogiston theory, which presumed that materials ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- solids in having faces with an even number of sides and, consequently ... In math theory you can also have lower dimensional cube. A 0th dimensional ...8 KB (1,139 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol ... as part of the general study of number theory. The best known of these ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- Principles), which was followed by a large number of scientific and philosophical ... the rest. The obvious defects of this theory, (1) that the senses alone ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- important ways. One of these was the theory of “atomism” which was ... 79 C.E., and was found to contain a large number of works by Philodemus, a ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- Monetarism is an economic theory which focuses on the macroeconomic ... The monetarist theory draws its roots from two almost diametrically ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- any other algorithms can at least in theory be simulated by computer programs. ... *Church, Alonzo. "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Social control theory, such as that developed by Travis Hirshi, suggests ... Social control theory proposes that exploiting the process of socialization ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- A second theory suggests the seven branches represent the seven heavenly ... course of the planets, of which that is the number... A third theory ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- of defense mechanisms, identifying a number of ways in which people protect ... by the Nazi party, the Freud family and a number of Jewish associates were ...12 KB (1,678 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- school of thought may be called the desert theory. According to this theory ... was the first to present a systematic theory. In his famous discussion ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- values. The most famous example of such a theory is Dissonance-reduction theory ... According to Festinger's theory, when we perceive a discrepancy ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Whately was critical of Ricardian economic theory, and elaborated ... and Catholics alike was carried out for a number of years, but in 1852, it ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- This sets upper limits on the number of antiprotons that could be ... * Santilli, Ruggero Maria. 2006. Isodual Theory of Antimatter: with ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- almost all disciplines. Upon receiving a number of criticisms for the ambiguity ... and others further pointed out the theory-ladenness or theory dependency ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which welfare ... achieve the "greatest good for the greatest number." ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- no trait guarantees survival of a given number of offspring. This is because ... allele, and all face equal odds, the number of offspring they collectively ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- He is the namesake for the "Mach number" (aka Mach speed), and ... called Mach the "forerunner of [the] Theory of relativity." ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- of confinement, which, it is believed, the theory of quarks must possess. and is expected to follow from the modern theory of strong interactions, called ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
- as a synonym for number theory, but this should not be confused with ... Alexandria. His book covers pythagorean number theory and contains the multiplication ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- This field is closely related to control theory and systems theory. At the ... influenced by cybernetics include game theory; system theory (a mathematical ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- "there is an overlap of the implicit theory of wisdom with intelligence ... to the last stage of his eight-stage theory of psychosocial development ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- size for some organisms. Estimates of the number of genes in an organism are ... pattern and process of evolution are the Theory of descent with modification ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- the world is. This has been expressed in a number of different ways. German ... (Hilbert) or reducible to logic and set theory (Frege). The empiricists ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- System and vindicated Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation by his imaginative ... Heat, in which they discussed the kinetic theory of molecular motion. They ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- vacuum. It is a concept of electromagnetic theory. This concept is an abstraction ... According to the theory of special relativity, this speed is independent ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- == Theory == An image of a small object is usually generated by using ... A number of other physical properties are linked to crystallography ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- weigh up overall good; secondly, that the theory does not properly accommodate ... of moral rules. It is probably the moral theory closest to ordinary ways ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- on childhood development, evolutionary theory, and their applications to ... Darwin's theory of evolution and Ernst Haeckel's theory ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- some of these earlier views through a theory which was influenced by the ... philosophy. Although there are large number of different views in general ...9 KB (1,457 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- == Political Theory == "Stalinism" refers to a style of government ... The main contributions of Stalin to communist theory were: ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- meshwork (Kandel et al. 2000). This theory, called the reticular theory ... The initial prevalence of the reticular theory was due in part to ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- quot;). The Narodniks consisted of a number of different groups that ... passive peasantry to revolution (see Great man theory). ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- is responsible for the unprecedented number and scope of various contemporary ... *Relative deprivation theory (1960s): Deprivation acts as a powerful ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- There exist four major theories: 1) ransom theory, 2) satisfaction theory, ... is typically performed by a priest, with a number of additional priests playing ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- such as used in cybernetics or game theory. The goal of family therapy ... change of perspective away from Freudian theory and toward a systems approach ...24 KB (3,689 words) - 00:39, 25 March 2024
- He wrote a number of other books, including a not so successful sequel ... Darwin's contribution to the origins of his theory. ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- that "Pi" was an irrational number. The very next year, Huygens ... wrote the first book on probability theory, which he published in 1657. ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- combined trigonometry and approximation theory to provide methods of solving ... and ultrasound), pharmacy, chemistry, number theory (and hence cryptology ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- born child and his future sons, three in number, would survive. Enoch also ... is a more realistic lifespan. Another theory suggests that lunar cycles ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- rather than a specific god, though this theory has been widely rejected ... decreed such sacrifices to Moloch. This theory is questionable, however ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- point. This is confirmed in modern day set theory in two dimensions by the ... for instance, within every irrational number, such as pi, and complies ...5 KB (679 words) - 08:29, 24 November 2022
- pressure, temperature, velocity, Mach number) change almost instantaneously ... with the light cone described in the theory of special relativity. ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 14:22, 27 January 2023
- some of the humanities (including literary theory) and to cultural anthropology. ... and relations. One reason for this high number is that he allowed each interpretant ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- This theory has been put in question recently by Wael Hallaq, who ... in his book about usul al-fiqh (the theory of Islamic law) amongst others ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- to objective moral standards. Natural law theory attempts to define a “higher ... Natural law theory attempts to define a “higher law” on the foundation ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- == Theory of operation == diffraction The relationship between the ... of the grating elements as well as on the number of elements in the grating ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- there achieved great honors. Amongst a number of competitors of more than ... 1825 to 1828 the paper was renamed The theory of systems of rays, and grew ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- with his work on behavior, Hebb proposed a theory of how brain functions underlie ... knowledge is significant, not only in the theory and its applications, but ...24 KB (3,670 words) - 17:22, 30 January 2024
- Geertz taught or held fellowships at a number of universities: Center ... He also contributed to social and cultural theory, and was influential in turning ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- free trade, the Hecksher-Ohlin model. This theory, based on work with his colleague ... only a beginning. Ohlin built an economic theory of international trade from ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- and John H. Weakland developed the double bind theory. G. Bateson, ... #039;s work is an interest in systems theory, cybernetics, a science he ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is ... real numbers, the logarithm is a unique real number. Using one of the ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- behavior and consequence, listing a number of influences that hold sway ... Ficino regarded the theory of Aristotle as beginning from the same ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- was an early believer in the quantity theory of money, or what is known ... This law has a number of important implications, perhaps the most ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 08:07, 28 January 2024
- As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ... puzzles that directly bear on which theory of causation we should accept ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- "phase rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance ... which formed the material for the kinetic theory of gases. ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 20:00, 7 September 2022
- Platonists, postulating the generation of number, then soul (as a self-moving ... character. He was teacher to a number of important Greek thinkers ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- nature of matter and built on the atomic theory proposed by the British chemist ... being that instead of the subscript number used today (such as H2O) ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 21:46, 4 October 2022
- A large number of manuscripts remain from the 600 year Anglo-Saxon ... modern analysis. The first widely accepted theory was by Eduard Sievers (1885 ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- (consequentialism). When the term virtue theory is used, it normally refers ... on Tacitus (c. 56 - c. 117 C.E.). Virtue theory emphases Aristotle's ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- According to Pythagoras, “number” or mathematical principle was ... world. Hippolytus records the Pythagorean number theory: ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- Another theory being explored is that of vision. As the theory suggests ... may lead to the development of a number of non-invasive experimental ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- In an extension of his ionic theory, Arrhenius proposed definitions ... at Uppsala, but Arrhenius sent it to a number of scientists in Europe who ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- value to scholars, Sturluson recounts a number of stories out of Norse mythology ... with King Hákon Hákonarson, meeting a number of great Norweigan thinkers ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- #039;s quantum of action to define a small number of "allowed states" ... *Bohr's model. The theory that electrons travel in discrete ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- , the concept of New Democracy, and the Theory of Productive Forces as applied ... This is akin to the "Stalinist" theory of the aggravation ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- terms such as relative atomic mass and mass number. * Relative atomic ... * Mass number: The mass number of an isotope is the total number of ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 06:26, 21 August 2023
- The largest amount of Broad's writings was concerned with theory ... the many alternatives he presented. In theory of perception, Broad argued ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics and the theory of music ... to the orthodox understanding of God. A number of glosses (for example, ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- are used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics ... and teaching logic and probability theory. He published three texts ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 08:01, 3 August 2022
- self-control. Aristotelian political theory considers the state as a ... knowledge gained though faith; and the theory of a single, universal Active ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- * Immediacy Index: The number of citations the articles in a journal ... It is calculated taking into account the number of citations to all journals ...28 KB (3,975 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- Shang Yang's economic theory placed an overwhelming emphasis ... Shang Yang's economic theory placed an overwhelming emphasis ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- the new concept of cosmopolitan critical theory in direct opposition to traditional ... in international law. However, the theory deviates in recognizing the ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive ... For instance, we could define natural number as follows (after Peano): ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Four basic sources are identified in the theory, designated as "J" ... Christians, however, usually reject the theory, affirming that Moses himself ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Marxist philosophers, which led to a number of political and philosophical ... for the Frankfurt School's critical theory, which combined philosophy ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- and Op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts. Bridget ... von Goethe demonstrates in his treatise Theory of Colors (published 1810 ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- 1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the glyph that represents the number ... In mathematics, the number 1 is the natural number A natural number ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- intuitionism is a normative ethical theory contrasted with versions ... as epistemological intuitionism, a theory of the way in which ethical ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- and therefore fails as an empirical theory. It does not allow us to ... ethical egoism is the most practical moral theory, or the most capable of motivating ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- adheres strictly to neoclassical economic theory in its economic analysis ... real-world research, combining basic theory with data to address contemporary ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- infinite realm of God. For example, if the number of sides of a polygon are ... ideas of Plotinus with those of Plato; the theory of Plotinus, however, contained ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- and against society—by other groups. The number of violently destructive ... quot; are religious in nature, a small number of non-religious groups are ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- wave properties of light. He also made a number of other contributions in ... on Natural Philosophy and contain a number of anticipations of later ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- outspoken criticism of traditional medical theory made him unwelcome in medieval ... use of minerals in his medicines, with the theory that "every metal and ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 07:39, 18 November 2022
- of the Bible. In the twentieth century a number of specific critical methodologies ... in Old Testament studies and the theory of the Q Document in New ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics. He is particularly ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- and Italian styles as well as the music theory, poetry, literature, and ... all while teaching singing and music theory and directing another collegium ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- the Pythagorean relation as a negative number. The factor c enters to convert ... will come up with the same invariant number. ==Origin== ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 19:16, 17 August 2023
- movement, as in Haydn's Piano sonatas Number 6 and Number 8. Mozart's ... point forward, the word sonata in music theory as often labels the abstract ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- in various projects. He was paid to do a number of projects: he translated ... an unreasonable advantage to the older theory. He makes the logical point ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- in mathematics, and, more recently, in set theory and computer science. As ... languages" or "formal theory." While formal logic is ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- the studies of medicine, and conducted a number of anatomical studies by ... studied Plato and Aristotle, and wrote a number of works in philosophy. Unfortunately ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- of Science; in 1988, the John von Neumann Theory Prize of ORSA/TIMS; and in ... a choice, which is selected from a number of different alternatives ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- "Art as Technique," in Theory of Prose trans. Benjamin ... is quite unimportant.Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose trans. Benjamin ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
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