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  • a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although ... While appreciation for Man Ray’s work beyond his fashion and portrait ...
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  • who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the world ... Lagrange was of French and Italian descent, and was baptized Giuseppe ...
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  • In many Christian churches, Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and ... observed by fasting, abstinence from meat, and repentance—a day of contemplating ...
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  • April 17, 1975), was an Indian philosopher and statesman, the second president ... foremost scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He ...
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  • sentences, observation statements, and judgments of perception have ... what relationship is there between them and non-verbal sensory (empirical ...
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  • Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and ... accounts he provides of his teacher Socrates and the Socratic method of teaching ...
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  • was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent ... stars, the five planets, the Sun, Moon, and a mysterious “counter-earth ...
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  • The Holy Grail is a mythical object or symbol associated with Jesus ... early Grail romances centered on Percival and were woven into the more general ...
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  • question, or statement from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism ... is beyond the ordinary duality of subject and object and cannot be explained ...
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  • extensively on hypnosis, criminology, and sexual behavior. , a study of "sexual perversity," and for his coinage of the terms ...
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  • in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, among ... Williams, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and Carl Rakosi, and the British ...
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  • among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the Japanese schools of Kegon ... Derived largely from the teachings of the Mahavairocana Sutra and ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals ... United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best ...
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  • Dante was a member of the same movement and a personal friend of Cavalcanti ... points in the breakdown of Medieval culture and the rise of modernity initiated ...
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  • known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest observed ... Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon, could be considered a binary ...
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  • In Buddhist doctrine and metaphysics, the word skandha (Sanskrit: ... consciousness (Skt. vijñāna, Pāli viññāṇa), and reasoning ...
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  • objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. It produces very ... exist, dealing with gases, liquids, and solids, and so on. Classical ...
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  • the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...
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  • E. – ca. 190 B.C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian ... It was Apollonius who gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola ...
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  • taught that the Son of God was not eternal, and was subordinate to God the ... He was possibly of Libyan and Berber descent. His father's name ...
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  • who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...
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  • - August 20, 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... most directly identified with Romanticism and the spirit of the German “Sturm ...
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  • faculties of the human mind are bypassed and a type of selective thinking ... There is reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... these writings as to cultural context and date, explaining them and ...
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  • was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone ... his own, Grainger demonstrated an openness and admiration of music of "the ...
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  • darkness, ignorance, or blindness to light and awakening. ... enlightenment (German: Erleuchtung) and secular or intellectual enlightenment ...
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  • 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanian physicist, whose ... tenth birthday, he was given a telescope, and this gift triggered some speculation ...
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  • #039;s sainthood is both theologically and practically significant, as ... Churches), by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Oriental Orthodox Churches ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and ... Husserl conceived and developed phenomenology as a philosophical discipline ...
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  • was strongly influenced by Immanuel Kant and the German idealists, Johann ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...
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  • – December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most ... as the fruit of a long period of development and maturation of his own intense ...
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  • was often discussed within ethical contexts and considered as a virtue. in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the inscription ...
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  • equilibrium (near spherical) shape; and :(c) has "cleared the ... limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and ...
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  • appears in the equation of motion of an object in a rotating frame of reference ... of the Earth experience a Coriolis force, and appear to veer to the right ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... J. B. Rhine, many continue to be skeptical and regard belief in the paranormal ...
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  • among philosophers. However the subject is grounded, the task of ... also been commonly studied in mathematics, and, more recently, in set theory ...
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  • who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter ... Harvard philosopher and logician Willard Quine wrote, "Carnap ...
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  • tensions, such as those between the subject and object of knowledge, mind ... spirit and matter, respectively as subject and object to be united by rational ...
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  • The term chiral is used to describe an object that is not superposable ... Because the difference between right and left hands is universally ...
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  • opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. ... A digital library has a number of advantages and problems not found ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... or know the future through paranormal means, and is a form of extra-sensory ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology ... who largely question the source and validity of human knowledge—the ...
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  • 17, 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He was the first ... do stone-mason, Johann Evangialist Doppler and his wife, Therese. Doppler ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law German]], Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman Turkish and Russian]] ...
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  • are ritualism (orthopraxy), anti-asceticism and anti-mysticism. The central ... (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and Brāhmanas. Its earliest commentator ...
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  • – March 16, 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is best ... Service. He attended the Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford, studying ...
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  • within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ... only helps clarify the principles of heat and mass transfer in fluids but ...
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  • upon the relationship between subject and object entities. tools, appliances, elevators, computers, and an expanding variety of electronic ...
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  • – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from ... of William of Ockham's philosophy and logic can be attributed to ...
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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... of the nature, origin, scope, method of and access to knowledge. Other ...
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  • minute details he conveys subtle symbolic and allegoric themes that draw ... was a lower middle-class silk weaver and an art dealer. He married ...
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  • Although educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ... Peirce was largely ignored during his lifetime, and secondary literature ...
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  • in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929). Process thought ... quot;Alfred North Whitehead. Process and Reality. (New York: Free Press ...
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  • His inability to accept the norm and prescribed limits of an artistic ... The amputation of his arm was a traumatic experience for him, and ...
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  • instrument used in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...
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  • west to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and east into present-day Nigeria ... Conquest, centralization, and standardization in the empire were the ...
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  • say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always ... There are both common-sense and historically contingent sources of ...
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  • a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and literary critic. His most ... create meaning. Sartre links consciousness and our experience of anguish ...
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  • (April 28, 1902 – June 4, 1968) was a Marxist and Hegelian political ... collapse all the difference between subject and object that had been in constituted ...
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  • Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche ...
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  • (created body), which appears in time and space; 2) the sambhogakaya ... as a mechanism to reconcile the various and potentially conflicting teachings ...
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  • category:Politics and social sciences category:Anthropology 200px|A [[Gitksan|Gitxsan]] pole (left) and Kwakwaka'wakw pole (right ...
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  • Dolma in Tibetan, is a popular female deity and Bodhisattva primarily worshiped ... In Tibet, Tārā is a Tantric deity whose mantra and visualization ...
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  • are derived primarily from plant sources and have been used in a variety ... mescaline, DMT, LSD, psilocin, ibogaine, and salvinorin A. ...
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  • would be tragically cut short, his poetic and philosophical works would ... many important, influential magistrates and ministry officials can be ...
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  • principle, states that interaction and mechanical action come in ... characterized by a probability distribution, and the larger the associated ...
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  • – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most ... artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted ...
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  • idealism, intuitionism, personalism, ethics and his intuitivism. His philosophy ... under Wilhelm Windelband, Wilhelm Wundt and G. E. Müller, receiving a ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology on pedophilic urges is considered morally and criminally wrong in almost ...
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  • are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about ... Lathes are used in woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, and ...
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  • involve pretend or imaginary interpersonal and intrapersonal interactions ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...
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  • He rose to prominence over the centuries and is now considered to be one ... where he received high marks for his verse and even published two early poems ...
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  • activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was ... anticipating the struggles that non-whites and women would still face even ...
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  • quot;pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy). It is offered ... from Paul, many scholars today doubt that it and the other pastoral epistles ...
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  • 1986) was a Cuban American musician, actor, and television producer. He is ... era, producing many top television programs and at one point owning RKO Pictures ...
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  • an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often ... may be healthy, supporting good self-esteem and feelings of self-worth and ...
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  • A is known to have certain characteristics, and if item or person or process ... transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source ...
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  • of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge. Kant and others sought to integrate ... of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against ...
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  • is one of the central values of modernity; and to the extent that people ... sustained a sharp divide between facts and values—the fact-value distinction ...
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  • Meditation (from the Latin meditatio: "discourse on a subject") ... the concentration of attention on some object of thought or awareness. ...
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  • empiricism of their British contemporaries and the scientific mind of the ... century thought by combining faith and reason, spirituality and the ...
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  • in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without ... by which the real existence of both subject and object is directly known ...
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  • a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and literary theory, to sociology ... where his grandfather was a sharecropper and his father was a postman and ...
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  • works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular ... Deleuze was born in Paris and lived there for most his life. His initial ...
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  • some subatomic particles, such as electrons and protons. There are two opposite ... the behavior of atoms, molecules, ions, and subatomic particles. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended ...
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  • A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the ... is replaced by the dark outline of the Moon, and the much fainter corona is ...
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  • is the home stellar system for human beings and all known forms of ... Pluto) with their four known moons, and billions of small bodies, ...
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  • Being and existence in philosophy are related and somewhat overlapping ... Modern existentialism maintained the distinction between essence and ...
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  • academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament ... ==Early life and athletic career== Born Philip Baker, he was born to ...
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  • region of plasma comprising magnetic fields and charged particles surrounding ... field. Subsequent studies have mapped and labeled the magnetosphere ...
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  • is held to have derived great advantage, and to whom "eminent learning ... Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I were the original Doctors ...
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  • Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born ... Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married ...
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  • 27, 1841), was a Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called "the ... a respectable family of the Tula province, and grew up in the village of ...
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  • There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ... == Belief and awareness == There is a degree of awareness of what one ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics man-made objects, namely, buildings), and personal property (movable ...
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  • Pythagorean philosopher, ascetic teacher, and wonderworker. His teachings ... Born at Tyana in Asia Minor, Apollonius was educated at Tarsus and ...
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  • author, naturalist, pacifist, philosopher, and transcendentalist. Like his ... narrative prose. He is best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience, but wrote ...
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  • manipulation, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information ... the perspective of the stakeholders involved and then applying information ...
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  • detective fiction, a subset of crime stories and novels. His work was immensely ... 'Chandleresque', which is subject and object of parody and pastiche. ...
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