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  • ...roblems]]. Historically the term comes from the [[Ancient Greek Philosophy|Greek philosophical]] term ''[[nous]]'', which was translated into [[Latin langua ...h could reconcile philosophical and scientific understandings of [[nature (philosophy)|nature]] with [[monotheism|monotheistic]] religious understandings, by mak
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  • The word ''syntax'' comes from [[Ancient Greek]]: {{wikt-lang|grc|σύνταξις}} "coordination", which consists of {{l The ''Aṣṭādhyāyī'' of [[Pāṇini]] (c. 4th century BC in [[Ancient India|Ancient]] [[India]]), is often cited as an example of a premodern work that approa
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  • [[File:Euclid.jpg|thumb|[[Euclid]] (holding [[calipers]]), Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by [[Raphael]] in this detail fr '''Mathematics''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] μάθημα ''máthēma'', "knowledge, study, learning") includes the st
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  • ...from bodies and bonding the spirits within bodies by the early 4th century Greek-Egyptian alchemist [[Zosimos of Panopolis|Zosimos]].<ref>Strathern, P. (200 ...ich is in turn derived from the word [[Name of Egypt|Kemet]], which is the ancient name of Egypt in the [[Egyptian language]].<ref name=oed /> Alternately, ''
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  • ===Atoms in philosophy=== ...+Philosophy#v=onepage&q=Democritus&f=false|series=A New History of Western Philosophy|volume=1|location=Oxford, England|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=97
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  • ...els of Legal Science |journal=Revus. Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law / Revija za ustavno teorijo in filozofijo prava |date=10 June 2013 | ...<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bor |first1=Fredric L. |title=The nexus between philosophy and law |journal=Journal of Legal Education |date=1974 |volume=26 |issue=4
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  • ...g|thumb|The word ''[[wiktionary:psyche|psyche]]'' comes from the [[ancient Greek]] for [[soul]] or [[butterfly]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Rabuzzi|first1=M ...al treatment of the soul' (''[[Wikt:psych|psych-]]'' "soul" from [[Ancient Greek]] ''psykhē'' "soul"; ''[[Wikt:-iatry|-iatry]]'' "medical treatment" from G
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  • ...enge to the "consciousness-studies community" |journal= Royal Institute of Philosophy | volume=supplementary volume 70 |date= 2012 }}</ref> ...s]], one's sense of [[self]]hood or [[soul]] explored by "[[phenomenology (philosophy)|looking within]]"; being a metaphorical "[[stream of consciousness (psycho
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  • ...dings for the library, foreign languages, social sciences, communications, philosophy, electrical and petroleum engineering, art, and architecture. Some other bu ...le:TTU English Philosophy Building.jpg|thumb|left|Texas Tech's English and Philosophy Building, with architecture influenced by English manors, faces a building
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  • ...'zoophilia'' derives from the combination of two nouns in [[Greek language|Greek]]: '''''ζῷον''''' (''zṓion'', meaning "animal") and '''''φιλία' Zoophilia may also be covered to some degree by other fields such as ethics, philosophy, law, [[animal rights]] and [[animal welfare]]. It may also be touched upon
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  • ...'' has existed for centuries and the use of the concept can be ascribed to Greek mathematicians, e.g. [[Sieve of Eratosthenes|the sieve of Eratosthenes]] an ...e "decimal number system". In the 15th century, under the influence of the Greek word ἀριθμός 'number' (''cf.'' 'arithmetic'), the Latin word was al
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  • ...ac]]<br />[[Judeo-Arabic languages|Hebrew]]<br />[[Cypriot Maronite Arabic|Greek]]<br />[[Romanization of Arabic|Latin]] (incl. [[Arabic chat alphabet]], [[ ...=live}}</ref> The [[Balkans|Balkan]] languages, including [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], have also acquired a significant nu
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  • ...coming from the Latin word ''scio'', meaning know or distinguish, and the Greek word ''logos'', meaning "the word or outward form by which the inward thoug ...physical]] relationship between the mind and body which became the central philosophy of Scientology.<ref name="american-buddha">{{cite web|url=http://www.americ
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  • ...[[Claude Bernard]] called it—is known as [[homeostasis]] ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]] for "standing still").<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gross |first=CG |year=199 ...ience/ |title=Cognitive Science |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |year=2008 |editor=Zalta, EN |accessdate=2011-10-14}}</ref>
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  • {{Short description|the practice of abstaining from animal products and a philosophy that rejects animal commodification}} ...l product]]s, particularly in [[diet (nutrition)|diet]], and an associated philosophy that rejects the [[commodity status of animals]].{{efn|For veganism and ani
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  • ...//web.archive.org/web/20180126012411/https://www.inverse.com/article/39908-ancient-human-evolution-science|archivedate=26 January 2018|url-status=live|access- ...nomena (or events) have motivated humanity's development of [[science]], [[philosophy]], [[mythology]], [[religion]], and numerous other fields of knowledge.
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  • | Greek = ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=http:// In culture, the [[philosophy of mind]] has for centuries attempted to address the question of the nature
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  • ...">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.1251981| pmid = 24855267| title = Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bi ...ere they are raised away from terrestrial predators.<ref>Gaston AJ (1994). Ancient Murrelet (''Synthliboramphus antiquus''). In ''The Birds of North America,
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  • ...e Jews and Christians in pre-Islamic Arabia, although their [[historicity (philosophy)|historicity]] is disputed among scholars.<ref>Kochler (1982), p. 29</ref>< ...ersian Gulf area.<ref name="Robin302"/> In line with broader trends of the ancient world, the region witnessed a decline in the practice of polytheistic cults
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  • ...eclassification of the Burgess Shale fauna |journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Biological and Biomedical Sciences |volume=39 |issue=3 | ...atl]], [[Quetzalcoatl]], and [[Coatlicue]]."<ref>''The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya''. Miller, Mary 1993 Thames & Hudson. London {{ISBN|978
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