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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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