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  • 121Hopf fibration — In the mathematical field of topology, the Hopf fibration (also known as the Hopf bundle or Hopf map) describes a 3 sphere (a hypersphere in four dimensional space) in terms of circles and an ordinary sphere. Discovered by Heinz Hopf in 1931, it… …

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  • 122RAS syndrome — stands for Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome, and refers to the use of one of the words that make up an initialism or acronym as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. It is itself a humorous example of a redundant …

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  • 123Formal interpretation — A formal interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?id=weKqT3ka5g0C pg=PA74 lpg=PA74 dq=%22Formal+interpretation%22+%22formal+language%22 source=web ots=pLN ms7Wi2 sig=P JqwdzOqLcX4nMpP64qmacnkDU hl=en#PPA74,M1 Cann Ronnie, Formal Semantics:… …

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  • 124Complex projective space — The Riemann sphere, the one dimensional complex projective space, i.e. the complex projective line. In mathematics, complex projective space is the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers. By analogy, whereas the points of a …

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  • 125Stiefel–Whitney class — In mathematics, the Stiefel–Whitney class arises as a type of characteristic class associated to real vector bundles E ightarrow X. It is denoted by w ( E ), taking values in H^*(X; /2), the cohomology groups with mod 2 coefficients. The… …

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  • 126Open Question Argument — The Open Question Argument is a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore in §13 of Principia Ethica (1903), to refute the equating of the property good with some non moral property, whether naturalistic (e.g.… …

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  • 127Default logic — is a non monotonic logic proposed by Raymond Reiter to formalize reasoning with default assumptions. Default logic can express facts like “by default, something is true”; by contrast, standard logic can only express that something is true or that …

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  • 128National interest — This article is about the generic foreign affairs term. For the political journal, see The National Interest. The national interest, often referred to by the French expression raison d État (English: reason of the State), is a country s goals and …

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