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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications of being true, justified, and believed. Knowledge is often distinguished from ...
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  • Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bjorn Borg Hollow Face.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This face of ...
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  • Psychologism is a philosophical position that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts and principles of logic and mathematics ...
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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications of being true, justified, and believed. Knowledge is often distinguished from ...
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  • Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...
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  • Welcome to the [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ New World Encyclopedia], a project to promote true knowledge that leads to human happiness ...
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  • Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding the truth or falsehood of all one’s beliefs until they have been demonstrated ...
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  • category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...
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  • category:image wanted In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey three different but related meanings, all ...
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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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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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  • Empedocles (c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. ...
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  • The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides of Megara, an early Hellenistic philosopher and one of the pupils of ...
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  • Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mannheim, Karl Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding ...
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  • In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal system is an idealized ...
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  • Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...
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  • Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" prior to reflective ...
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  • Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad bin Hanbal ...
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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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  • Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition are historically conditioned. It is also widely used in diverse disciplines ...
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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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  • The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...
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  • Category:Public Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary ...
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  • Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly favorable account of science and what is taken to be the scientific method ...
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  • *Novak, Michael. Belief and Unbelief; A Philosophy of Self-Knowledge. New York: Macmillan, 1965. *O'Connell, Robert J. William James on the ...
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  • Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps the best general description of rationalism is the view that there are some ...
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  • African African Journals OnLine (AJOL) [http://www.ajol.info African Journal Online official site] Retrieved November 22, 2017. is a non-profit ...
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  • Category:Public Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast ...
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  • New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...
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  • category:image wanted Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Sociologists Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (September 8, 1864 – June 21, ...
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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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  • category:image wanted Collaborative Learning-Work (CLW) was a concept first presented by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research ...
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  • Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial ...
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  • Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ...
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  • An axiom is a sentence or proposition that is taken for granted as true, and serves as a starting point for deducing other truths. In many usages ...
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  • Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425 – c. 350 B.C.E.) (Greek: Αἰσχίνης , sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines), son of ...
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  • Protocol sentences or protocol statements, also known as basic sentences or basic statements--the terms atomic statements, observation sentences ...
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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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  • It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal ...
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  • Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə ), a sub-school of ...
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  • Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known ...
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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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  • Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Николай Онуфриевич Лосский) ( December 6|1870|November 24 – January 24, 1965) ...
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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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  • Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833–October 1, 1911) was a German philosopher and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Landaff 1940s.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Teacher and student in 1941, Massachusetts]] ...
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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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  • In the Hindu religion, Sarasvati (Sanskrit sa|सरस्वती sarasvatī ) is the goddess of learning, knowledge, and the arts including ...
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  • Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist. Vico presented his philosophical ...
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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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  • 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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  • Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" is derived from Latin "principium ...
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  • Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given as 1250 and 1246), also known as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian ...
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  • Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often used to describe a type of ...
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  • Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...
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  • truths; however, one's self-knowledge, which reveals to an ... of God and of one's self; self-knowledge being necessary to knowledge ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...
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  • Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...
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  • Luis Molina (born 1535 in Cuenca, Spain; died October 12, 1600 in Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher who devised the theological ...
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  • The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of fundamental ethical standards for research with human subjects and arose as ...
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  • Jakob Friedrich Fries (August 23, 1773 – August 10, 1843) was a German philosopher in the Kantian tradition. Unlike Immanuel Kant’s immediate ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Comenius, John Amos [[Image:Relief Komensky.jpg|thumb|200px|Comenius on relief at school building ...
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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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  • Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to ...
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  • Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...
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  • category:image wanted Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, ...
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  • Shri Madhvacharya (shortened as Madhva) (1238 – 1317 C.E.) was a Indian philosopher-sage who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu ...
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  • The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are three religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Botta, Paul-Émile Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was ...
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  • Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts in abstraction, in accordance with rationality and logic. Discussion ...
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  • Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge and belief. The term ...
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  • but as a living approach to the quest for self-knowledge. ==Influence in the West== Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel referred to Indian thought ...
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  • Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille, Lanus ab insulis, or De Insulis, Alain von Ryssel, Alanus de lnsulis) ...
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  • Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...
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  • John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European evolution theory ...
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  • Vallabha, or Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 - 1531), was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of Shuddha ...
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  • , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy ...
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  • Pyrrho (c. 360 B.C.E. - c. 275 B.C.E.), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was credited in antiquity as being the first skeptic philosopher and the ...
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He fought for the French ...
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  • Marine Engineering is a profession practiced by members of a ship's crew who operate and maintain the propulsion and other systems on board ...
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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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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • Anatomy may refer either to the internal structure and organization of an organism, to any of the parts of an organism, or to the branch of biology ...
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  • "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...
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  • Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...
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  • Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...
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  • to know ourselves. It is this search for self-knowledge and the personal question of “Who am I?” that motivated Ricouer in his development of ...
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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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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Bagley, William Chandler William Chandler Bagley (March 15, 1874 – July 1, 1946), was an American ...
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  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who ...
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  • Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a ...
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  • Dà Xué (大學 or 大学), usually translated as The Great Learning, refers to a short text of indeterminate authorship that is primarily concerned ...
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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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  • Fukuzawa Yukichi 福澤 諭吉 (January 10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese author, educator, translator, entrepreneur, political ...
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  • Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. ...
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  • in form. Its foundation was the desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammeled by the rigid bonds of any particular system. Hemsterhuis was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ...
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...
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  • Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in American pragmatic philosophy ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bezold Effect.svg|frame|right|Demonstration of the Bezold ...
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  • A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck, shaken, rubbed, and scraped with an implement, or by any other ...
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  • Nachman Kohen Krochmal (näkh'män krôkh'mäl) also called (by acronym) Ranak (born in Brody, Galicia, on February 17, 1785; died ...
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  • Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. It is concerned with ...
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  • Alexander Neckam (sometimes spelled "Nequam") (September 8, 1157 – 1217, Hertfordshire, England), was an English theologian, philosopher ...
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  • Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) (c. 1380 – c. 1444) was a Jewish philosopher, a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known ...
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  • André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who first demonstrated that two current-carrying wires exert ...
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  • Wang Fu-chih (王夫之) or Wang Fuzhi or Chuanshan (船山 Ch’uan-shan), also known as Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher ...
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  • The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...
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  • Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more ...
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  • of the Divine Feminine, the ultimate unity of self-knowledge and knowledge of the divine, the attainability of Christhood to all who attain gnosis, ...
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  • Vajra (Sanskrit: meaning thunderbolt and diamond) refers to an important sacred tool and ritual implement in Vajrayana Buddhism, Hinduism and ...
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  • Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics that studies questions of being or existence. The questions include ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal In parapsychology, clairvoyance (meaning "clear-seeing" ...
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  • German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of ...
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  • Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also one of the ...
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  • The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education The Fulbright Program including the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah Celestia (Celeste) Susannah Parrish ...
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  • Pashupata Shaivism was one of the main Shaivite schools. The Pashupatas (Sanskrit: Pāśupatas ) are the oldest named Shaivite group, originating ...
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  • Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary critics and philosophers. He was a master of the Kula school of Shaivism ...
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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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  • Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of ...
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  • Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...
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  • Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (pronounced "ot-LAY") (August 23, 1868 - December 10, 1944) was an Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and ...
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  • Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential in Britain already in the 1700s, but coming to especial prominence ...
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  • Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Rawlinson, Henry [[Image:Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Photograph by Lock & ...
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  • Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt) (c. 1295 – 1369) was a French medieval philosopher, theologian ...
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  • William Kingdon Clifford (May 4, 1845 - March 3, 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Along with Hermann Grassmann, he invented ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Elias, Norbert Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist, famous for his development of Process ...
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  • Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian, Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered around theistic ...
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  • Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher of the German Enlightenment ...
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  • Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western ...
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  • Category:Psychologists McDougall, William William McDougall (June 22, 1871 – November 28, 1938) was a British-born, American psychologist who ...
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  • Philolaus (ca. 470 B.C.E. – ca. 385 B.C.E., Greek: Φιλόλαος) was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ...
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  • Sir William Henry Bragg (July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English physicist who, independently and in partnership with his son, William ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...
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  • Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, founded the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Ganzfeld.jpg|frame|right|Participant in a Ganzfeld telepathy ...
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  • The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened ...
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  • Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Munsterberg, Hugo Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 - December 19, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was a pioneer ...
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  • Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...
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  • Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968), from Switzerland, was the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century that changed ...
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  • The arXiv (pronounced "archive," as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic ...
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  • Category:Public [[File:Om symbol.svg.png|thumb|right|250px|Om/Aum in Devanagari script]] Aum ([[File:Om symbol.svg.png|16px|]]), also rendered ...
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  • In Jainism, the Tirthankara ("Fordmaker") (also Tirthankara) refer to twenty four enlightened spiritual masters who are believed to ...
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  • The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. This text ...
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  • Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Like his close friend ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work [[Image:Charity to Street Arab.jpg|150px|thumbnail|200px|right|Social work involves ...
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  • Paracelsus (November 11 or December 17, 1493 – 24 September, 1541) was a Swiss alchemist, physician, astrologer, and philosopher. Born Theophrastus ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Economists Simon, Herbert A. [[Image:Herbert Simon, RIT NandE Vol13Num11 1981 Mar19 Complete.jpg|right|thumb|250px ...
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  • Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted by mediums. The afterlife is seen by Spiritualists, not as a static ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology The Unconscious is a rich concept with a multi-faceted history. For Freud it began as ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...
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  • Yi I (1536-1584), known as "Yulgok" according to his pen name, which means ("Chestnut valley"), is as prominently recognized ...
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  • Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims ...
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  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially ...
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  • Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée (1515 - August 24, 1572), was a French humanist philosopher, logician, and educational reformer, known for ...
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  • Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...
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  • Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...
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  • category:image wanted Kilgour, Fred Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science ...
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  • Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Illustrerad Verldshistoria band I Ill 107.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Thales]] Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca ...
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  • Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861 - 1916) was a French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential work in the philosophy ...
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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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  • Category:Image wanted George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was ...
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  • Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Alcott, Amos Bronson [[Image:Amos_Bronson_Alcott.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A. Bronson Alcott]] ...
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  • If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half-life is defined as the time it takes for the sample to decay to half its ...
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  • The Tripitaka Koreana (lit. Goryeo Tripitaka) or Palman Daejanggyeong ("Eighty-Thousand Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka ...
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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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  • Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately 1000 C.E. to the rise of Gothic Art, beginning in the thirteenth century ...
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  • Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better known by the acronym Rashi (February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105), was a rabbi ...
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  • Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος Νύσσης) (ca. 335–ca. 394 C.E.) was a Christian bishop ...
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  • Category:Public Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes ...
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  • Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery, and the first person to sail directly from ...
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  • Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic tendencies. Its adherents, known as Mandaeans ...
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  • Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between ...
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  • Władysław Stanisław Reymont (May 7, 1867 – December 5, 1925), born Stanisław Władysław Rejment, was a Polish author. He won the Nobel ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Curtius, Ernst [[Image:Ernst Curtius.JPG|right|thumb|Ernst Curtius]] ...
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  • Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...
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  • category:image wanted Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to case-based reasoning. Casuistry is used in juridical ...
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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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  • Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: Εὐκλείδης ) (c. 325 B.C.E. – c. 265 B.C.E.), a Greek mathematician, who ...
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  • Crates of Thebes (c. 368 – 288 B.C.E.), a Hellenistic philosopher, was one of the Cynics and the teacher of Zeno of Citium. Crates was a student ...
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  • The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing out as the most famous. ...
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  • The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Abbott, Grace Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of ...
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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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  • Bernard de Mandeville (1670 – 1733), was a philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life ...
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