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  • 121Ernst Mayr — Not to be confused with Ernst Meyer or Ernest May. Ernst Mayr Ernst W. Mayr Born …

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  • 122Liste des théories philosophiques — Les écoles de philosophie ont eu des théories philosophiques variées, elles sont listées ci dessous. Sommaire : Haut A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Absolutism  …

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  • 123Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …

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  • 124Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit — Robert C.Solomon G.W.F.Hegel (1770–1831) was the greatest systematic philosopher of the nineteenth century. As a young man he followed and was (at least at first) enthusiastic about the French Revolution. Then came the Reign of Terror of 1793,… …

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  • 125Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… …

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  • 126television — [20] Television means etymologically ‘far vision’. Its first element, tele , comes from Greek téle ‘far off’, a descendant of the same base as télos ‘end’ (source of English talisman and teleology). Other English compounds formed from it include… …

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  • 127Intention — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Intention >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 intent intent intention intentionality Sgm: N 1 purpose purpose Sgm: N 1 quo animo quo animo Sgm: N 1 project project &c. 626 Sgm: N 1 undertaking …

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  • 128talisman — [17] Talisman, one of the very few English nouns ending in man which does not turn into men in the plural (dragoman is another), denotes etymologically an ‘object consecrated by the completion of a religious ritual’. It comes via French talisman… …

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