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  • to the impossible," is a form of argument where one provisionally ... If the law of non-contradiction is false, then it can be the case ...
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  • yield a falsehood. By extension, outside of logic, contradictions are also ... Pointing to this principle in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of ...
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  • paradox still occurs using the law of non-contradiction: R∈R ∧ ¬(R∈R)). But, the law of non-contradiction tells us ¬(R∈R ∧ ¬ ...
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  • Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...
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  • A law library is a library designed to assist law students, attorneys ... The processes of legal research vary according to the country and ...
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  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into ...
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  • Category:Law or guardian, for the care and support of children of a relationship ...
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  • it is usually distinguished form other kinds of determinism such as fate, karma ... Given the difficult nature of the tension of omnipotence and free ...
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  • physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...
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  • Vapor pressure (or vapour pressure) is the pressure of a vapor in ... is used to mean the partial pressure of water vapor in the atmosphere ...
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  • Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...
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  • Category:Law Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues ...
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  • have even suggested that James the brother of Jesus (and perhaps Jesus himself ... has led to divergent interpretations of the Nazirites among Talmudic ...
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  • Category:Law :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law ...
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  • in the twentieth century as a coalition of like-minded groups seeking ... quot; was originally used in the context of large ecumenical councils that ...
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  • only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...
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  • The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties formulated in Geneva ... The Conventions were the results of efforts by Henry Dunant, who was ...
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  • Category:Law through coercion, intimidation, or threats of physical harm. It is distinguished ...
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  • for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate ... (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light ...
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  • German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...
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  • Category:Law A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ...
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  • Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Politics and social sciences For the electrical ... Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions ...
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  • a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... depended on the sanctity of this law of non-contradiction, for example see ...
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  • Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...
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  • strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...
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  • an electric charge or in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field ... The electric field is a vector field with SI units of newtons per ...
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  • objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public ... they are not bound by the competition of the business sector. In this ...
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  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire ... She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ...
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  • history. For Freud it began as that part of the mind that contained our ... the collective unconscious, an accumulation of inherited experiences of all ...
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  • a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that ... The number of non-governmental organizations has exploded during the ...
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  • that separates them, known as Coulomb's Law. He also studied frictional ... Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ...
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  • Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic ... Five existing fragments of the work of Aristobulus, Commentaries on ...
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  • for charitable purposes only. The law favors charities because they ... to benefit society or a specific group of people within that society ...
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  • Springs can be made of a variety of elastic materials, including fluids ... Technically, a wooden bow is a form of spring. ==Historical appearance== ...
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  • in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for ... ] and [http://www.plos.org/ Public Library of Science]. ...
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  • The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... (c. 200 C.E.), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and ...
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  • he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...
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  • Category:Law due to age, mental illness, or some form of coercion, fraud or the like ...
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  • The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...
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  • Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...
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  • design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally ... and legally protected for a specific period of time, a trade secret can only ...
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  • Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian ... He developed a sophisticated analysis of language (thus foreshadowing ...
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  • but also include courses on the doctrines of the church and often offer ... a God-centered environment, the narrowness of the vision of parochial schools ...
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  • activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...
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  • Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... Buddhism, reasserting the importance of repentance and internal enlightenment ...
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  • Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic ... Antisthenes founded a school of his own in the Cynosarges. Emphasizing ...
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  • teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...
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  • a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... to return to the "fundamentals" of Biblical faith, and who stressed ...
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  • Taft-Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that greatly restricts the ... required to affirm they were not supporters of the Communist Party. The Taft ...
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  • Category:Law activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ...
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  • under an applied shear stress regardless of the magnitude of the applied ... is made by evaluating the viscosity of the matter: for example silly ...
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  • in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...
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  • The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global ... to maintain and monitor the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the ...
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  • rabbinic literature, which are primarily of an exegetic and homiletic nature ... ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ...
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  • Category:Law :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ...
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  • Category:Law Embezzlement is the illegal transfer of money or property for personal ...
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  • Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...
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  • affirms that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...
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  • Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...
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  • Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance ... Probing into the depths of classical mechanics, physicists have conceptualized ...
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  • Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...
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  • diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations from January ... not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the genocide ...
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  • , also called the Brit Noah ("Covenant of Noah") refer to seven ... G-d's saving grace outside the realm of Judaism so that non-Jews will ...
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  • a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form ... Mathematical logic is a mathematical representation of formal rules ...
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  • In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; (b) dark ...
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  • or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...
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  • The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...
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  • James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 - May 19 ... journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered ...
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  • spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including ... Halakha. Reflecting the cultural diversity of Jewish communities, slightly ...
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  • In United States law, adopted from the Magna Carta, due process (more ... proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ...
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  • oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...
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  • end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...
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  • in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim ... philosophy, and Mauss entered the University of Bordeaux where Durkheim was ...
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  • referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can ... The two basic types of midrash are known as Midrash Aggadah, regarding ...
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  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...
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  • view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...
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  • Category:Law Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ...
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  • a closed curve on a plane, such that the sum of the distances from any point ... An ellipse is a type of conic section. If a conical surface is cut ...
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  • The Yarmulke has become identified as a symbol of Judaism over the ... Many religions imbue clothing with religious significance as a sign ...
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  • IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy ... Vaisesika is a system of pluralistic realism, which emphasizes that ...
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  • The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...
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  • The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...
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  • twelve feet. Twain said he loved the sound of the river boat pilot calling ... on the literary scene during the period of Reconstruction, when America ...
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  • The electrical resistance of an object (or material) is a measure ... parallels with the mechanical notion of friction. The SI unit of electrical ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Economics [[Image:Bankrupt computer store 02.jpg|thumb|Notice of closure attached ...
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  • Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ...
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  • Category:Law [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ...
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  • A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... upon entering Canaan, but the Mosaic Law also provided protection for ...
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  • or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...
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  • A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with ... == Types of triangles == Triangles can be classified according to the ...
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  • perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface. If the force is ... Our understanding of the concept of pressure and our ability to manipulate ...
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  • First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess ... To date, no women have served as president of the United States. Presumably ...
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  • adversaries into friends and resolve issues of injustice and oppression. Gandhi ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...
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  • to destroy the union during the period of martial law in the early 1980s ... 2004, ISBN 0415933978), 114. to members of the anti-communist Left. Solidarity ...
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  • Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...
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  • who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... he regarded Vedanta as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered ...
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  • widely with varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...
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  • Category:Law A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ...
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  • A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, ... identity or defiance. The increasing problem of gang violence in many cities ...
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal ...
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  • The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... that the sermon was meant as a summary of Jesus' teaching for Matthew ...
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  • Category:Law The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ...
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  • Group marriage is a form of polygamous marriage in which more than ... such experiments have ended with breakdown of the group. Two of the greatest ...
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  • An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...
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  • activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...
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  • as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...
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  • Category:Law Pugin for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-1811).]] ...
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  • Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... in unethical professional behavior. American law schools are required to offer ...
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  • Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection ... Michael Stern Hart's vision and efforts led to the establishment ...
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  • Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction of the Temple ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Military that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ...
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  • Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... Intermarriage is a form of exogamy, or marrying outside of one's ...
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  • Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...
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  • and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...
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  • Category:Law A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit ...
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  • The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...
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  • , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad ... represented the unity and preservation of Islam as a religious faith ...
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  • The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...
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  • the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...
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  • A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...
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  • If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half ... In the case of radioactive decay, each different radioactive isotope ...
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  • The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of ... is a subatomic particle with a baryon number of 1. Baryons are a subset of ...
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  • The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers ... is the only good, and emphasized the value of physical activity and hard ...
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  • Category:Law to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ...
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  • Electrostatics is a branch of science that involves the investigation ... It has been known since ancient times that the rubbing of some materials ...
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  • Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ... Understanding leadership has been the source of much research and ...
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  • most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...
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  • He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...
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  • The Cypriot Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by the Council ... One step short of autocephaly is autonomy. A church that is autonomous ...
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  • unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...
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  • Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times-Tribune ...
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  • known as analytic ethics—is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand ... Metaethics is one of the three branches of ethics generally recognized ...
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  • In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful ... The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits. Fraud ...
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  • [[Image:Fuggerkontor.jpg|thumb|200px| A painting of an early business ... to carry out activities for the purpose of generating revenue. It involves ...
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  • Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...
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  • "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...
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  • and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...
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  • An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...
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  • Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...
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  • Roman Emperor and for promoting the vision of the Christian world as a single ... Leo was the son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. Unlike many of the Cardinals ...
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  • strives to remain "A national network of like-minded state and territorial ... Despite the urgency of environmental issues, nations are not taking ...
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  • an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely ... A friend of Charles Dickens who published in Dicken's journal ...
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  • to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 percent of the wealth belongs to 20 percent ... from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin. His thesis was entitled ...
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  • The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...
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  • Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...
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  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable ... ). It is one of the most frequently quoted of Jesus' parables. ...
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  • Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one ... throughout Europe. A devout Jew and defender of the Jewish position, he was ...
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  • Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... Legalists argued for “rule by law” and criticized Cofucianist ...
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