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  • of England with his "Heartland Theory" in 1904. Mackinder ... The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire ...
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  • commissions from major orchestras and a number of these works were premiered ... Etler is also the author of Making Music: An Introduction to Theory ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • capacity to recognize. Price’s theory led him to make logical propositions ... he authored were Perception, Hume's Theory of the External World, Belief ...
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  • and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...
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  • branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal ... of the International Symposium of the Theory of Models, Berkeley, 1963 ...
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  • on the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth (1838 [1938]). ... suited for the foundation of a scientific theory (1838:10). ...
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  • commensurable because a week is a constant number of minutes (10080), so that ... describe or evaluate observations independently of theory. ...
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  • Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such ... to be contrasted with another ethical theory which denies it, namely, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, is associated with instinctual ... in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: "We have ...
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  • conducted seminal research on systems theory, as well as being active ... was able to integrate concepts from game theory, physics, linguistics, cybernetics ...
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  • The wave theory of light was current during Doppler's time. This ... Doppler continued to elaborate on his theory, as well as publishing ...
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  • == Theory of Operation == Image:Pulley0.png|Diagram 1 - A basic equation ... The simplest theory of operation for a pulley system assumes that ...
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  • Clifford developed a type of Darwinian theory of ethics within an atheistic ... at Cambridge whose membership included a number of British intellectuals ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Normative ethics, also known as normative theory, or moral theory, intends ... of morality, as in the divine command theory in meta-ethics today. ...
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  • Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... in advancing the understanding of how game theory applies to certain types ...
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  • A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ... Schlick's Konstatierungen had a number of characteristics: Their ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... of any observer, such as shape, extension, number, solidity, and volume. ...
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  • This report concluded that a considerable number of Caucasian families had ... . He also started to work on sociological theory, the work which culminated ...
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  • Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ... It is easy to come up with a theory about nature, hard to come ...
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  • southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions ... called the "century of syntactic theory" as far as linguistics ...
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  • for her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Women. He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting (画论), Introduction ... detailed, and lifelike. His Graphic Theory later became a basic theory ...
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  • Filmer developed a political theory, based on natural law, which equated ... Filmer's political theory was based on natural law. He believed ...
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  • == Theory == arms is the morally correct step. Just War theory promotes the view that war ...
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  • six ligands in an octahedral geometry. The theory allows one to understand ... begins with a focus on "coordination number," the number of ligands ...
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  • and brightness (amplitude/intensity—number of photons of light). Some ... The first was the "emission theory," which maintained that ...
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  • Value-pluralism is a position in metaethics, rather than a theory ... William James anticipated Berlin’s theory of value-pluralism in ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often ... on induction, pragmatism, and probability theory have become more popular ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with ... aim is the greatest good for the greatest number, although situational ethics ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). first achieved notoriety because of his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Over a thousand bodies are buried at the Qumran cemetery. One theory ... More recently the theory of Qumran being a religious settlement has ...
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  • also includes various results in number theory, such as the connection ... the ancient Greek version of elementary number theory. The Elements is the ...
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  • amount of pleasure for the greatest number of sentient beings," ... amount of pleasure for the greatest number of sentient beings in fact ...
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  • come to be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in ... the spiritual aspect of mind and reifies a theory of psychological dysfunction—the ...
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  • Many electronic components are on the market today. A number of them ... The number of different analog circuits so far devised is huge, especially ...
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  • paradox is an unintuitive outcome of economic theory. The etymology ... being the founder of dialectic, produced a number of paradoxes that purport ...
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  • 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 ...
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