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  • doctrine. Its teachings on the universality of sin—for example, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is ...
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  • Otto Weininger (April 3, 1880 – October 4, 1903) was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex ...
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  • tradition. Furthermore, the universality of the works of Plotinus is attested by their effect on a wide scope of religions and philosophies. ...
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  • into Latin in 1150. His concept of the universality of matter and form was ... philosopher. Gabirol’s theory of the universality of matter became a major ...
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  • of Asia can perhaps be explained by the universality of its tenet that humbly ... ==Universality of Zen== Although Zen has particularistic elements in ...
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  • semi-Pelagians believed in the universality of original sin and believed that salvation could not be achieved without God's grace. Contrary ...
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  • by history, there is no objectivity or universality in knowledge. The earlier formulation of historicism was made by Vico (1668-1744) and Herder ...
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  • A spermatozoon or spermatozoan (pl. spermatozoa), from the ancient Greek σπερμα (seed) and ζων (alive), is more commonly known as a ...
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  • result is a fractal, which (in accordance with universality) resembles the Mandelbrot set.]] Nonetheless, there is some degree of empiricism and ...
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  • appearance attests to a certain universality in human nature, particularly with regard to death and burial. They are evidence that even early ...
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  • *Zhou, Dunyi, and Fan-ch'eng Hsü. 1979. The book of universality: a supplement to The book of changes. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo ...
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  • * Universality describes how commonly a biometric trait occurs in each individual. * Uniqueness is how well the biometric distinguishes one individual ...
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  • frequent use during this time to express the universality of the orthodox position versus the more narrow insistence on holiness expressed by the Donatists. ...
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  • the vitality of everyday life, the universality of human emotional experience, and the illuminating power of nature. Coleridge's "Rime ...
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  • Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, motive, or a ...
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  • individual victim, global coverage, the universality and indivisibility of ... causes undermines the principle of universality. There is no conflict ...
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  • and subtitled On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church—quietly leaves out the filioque clause from the Creed without ...
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  • order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; they simplified visual compositions to ...
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  • the entity's "whatness," or universality. == The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception == Perhaps the most influential point of ...
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  • lives of the dreamers, nonetheless has a certain universality. ... situation. Although he acknowledged the universality of archetypal symbols ...
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  • event has a cause," are their universality, necessity, and non-analyticity. In other words, they say that, with respect to entire group ...
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  • that the paintings have been found; implying the universality of purpose and similarity of the impulses that might have created the imagery. Various conjectures ...
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  • Avicenna and medieval theories of essence and universality. It seems that the analogy with color may be extended here: particular things in the world ...
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  • retained, most notably the desire to justify the universality of rights. ===Will Theory=== Will theorists maintain that rights are justified due ...
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  • * [http://www.teachingvalues.com/goldenrule.html The Universality of the Golden Rule in the World Religions] Teaching Values * [http://www.religioustolerance ...
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  • in life, a profound serenity and peace, a universality within the particulars of existence, or perhaps a unity between oneself and the cosmos. This ...
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  • and conveyed to the world the beauty and universality of art and its rightful place in American culture. Alvin wrote in program notes for one of ...
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  • Some critics judged it to be lacking in universality and depth, without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to ...
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  • and the universality of his chthonic embrace (as all living beings must eventually pass into earth). In the quotation that follows, it should ...
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  • who introduced a Neoplatonic theory of the universality of matter. He dismisses both of them as being inadequate in the application of philosophy ...
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  • (because they fall into the Lambda transition universality class), but the extent to which similar generalizations can be applied to unconventional superconductors ...
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  • and schools of Nonbeing. The question of universality and particularity, or of one and many, led to the development of truly Chinese Buddhist schools ...
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  • and incorporeal, the concept of universality, and the mind’s ability to reflect on its own thought processes. ===Ethics=== Gassendi promoted ...
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  • strive towards perfecting. This assumption of universality fails to consider the absence of such an emphasis in other flourishing cultures, where high ...
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  • of form from which its other character of universality spontaneously springs. It must be holy, and must therefore exclude all profanity, not only ...
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  • of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness." ...
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  • is told in many cultures, which speaks to the universality of the themes found in the story. In modern times, the meaning of the story has changed into ...
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  • further proof of the somewhat surprising universality of cybernetic study. Wiener popularized the social implications of cybernetics, drawing ...
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  • #039;s." There was confusion as to the universality of the Churches of the East among Western clergy despite firm and repeated papal confirmation ...
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  • ethics and utilitarianism emphasize universality, justice, and impartiality, ethics of care emphasizes the importance of relationships, emotional ...
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  • national library. The Jeffersonian concept of universality, the belief that all subjects are important to the library of the American legislature, became ...
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  • Hans-Georg Gadamer pursued the idea of the universality of hermeneutics inherent in Heidegger’s phenomenology. ===Sartre and French Existential ...
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  • some expressions had cross-cultural universality. Paul Ekman, [https://www ... The largest piece of evidence that disputes the universality of emotions ...
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  • Despite this universality, one's ritual actions are understood as varying based upon one's social role(s): The Son of Heaven alone performs ...
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  • Foucault and Jacques Derrida questioned the universality of the scientific method and the Enlightenment tradition in general. Many postmoderists believed ...
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  • of the reflections in the churchyard, the universality and impersonality this gives to the style, claim as if by comparison that we ought to accept ...
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  • order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color — they simplified visual compositions ...
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  • made it an outstanding symbol of wholeness and universality, a symbol which drew all to itself." Where lines of latitude and longitude intersect ...
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  • many she opened up new possibilities about the universality of the human consciousness. ==Notes== ==References== * Bleiler, Everett Franklin. ...
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  • century British ethical theories, and the universality of the moral law. Green frequently examined the relation of God to the moral world. In his mature ...
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