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  • Category:Image wanted Matthew Tindal, (1657 – August 16, 1733), was an eminent English deist whose works, highly influential at the dawn of ...
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  • Electrical resistivity (also known as specific electrical resistance) is a measure of how strongly a material opposes the flow of electric current ...
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  • Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), was an American scientist and engineer. After some involvement in mining operations ...
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  • The term scientism has been used with different meanings in literature. The term is often used as a pejorative Scientism: "an exaggerated ...
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  • George Berkeley (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ...
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  • category:image wanted Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described in various traditions. The concept was often discussed ...
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  • Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of ...
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  • John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most important Franciscan theologians and the founder of Scotism, a special form ...
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  • Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics ...
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  • Category:Education [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops]] In most educational systems ...
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  • Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...
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  • The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad), often regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ...
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  • Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (1853 – 1900) was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic who played a significant role ...
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  • Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural ...
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  • The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New Testament apocrypha that was unearthed among the texts of the Nag Hammadi ...
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  • David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ...
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  • Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human women and “sons of God” (proposed to be giants or proto humans), who ...
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  • In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...
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  • Isaac Kaufmann Funk (Sept. 10, 1839 - April 4, 1912) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer ...
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  • Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In 1876 he became a professor ...
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