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  • Thumbnail for Polar bear
    The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can...
    95 KB (12,386 words) - 03:22, 9 June 2024
  • Meaning (semiotics) (category Articles to be expanded from June 2010)
    abstraction from the object to which they refer. A symbol, which is the most abstract, does not resemble or bear any physical relation to the thing that it represents...
    5 KB (653 words) - 06:00, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Great Root Bear
    Great Root Bear, known since at least early 2012 as Rooty, is an anthropomorphic brown bear used as the mascot (or "spokesbear") of both A&W Restaurants...
    19 KB (2,238 words) - 23:57, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Science of Logic
    True infinite bears the same relation of mediation to these moments as Becoming did to Being and Nothing and as Alteration did to Something and Other. Hegel...
    94 KB (13,120 words) - 01:04, 9 April 2024
  • places. In this definition, signhood is a role in a triadic relation, a role that a thing bears or plays in a given context of relationships — it is not...
    27 KB (3,262 words) - 21:28, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Polar bear conservation
    Polar bears are studied to gain understanding of what is happening throughout the Arctic, because at-risk polar bears are often a sign of something wrong...
    52 KB (5,718 words) - 15:18, 23 May 2024
  • Latin: identitas, "sameness") is the relation each thing bears only to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including...
    10 KB (1,128 words) - 03:52, 9 March 2024
  • to 'eat them up' as they are 'so cute' often in relation to people or animals. The verb man directly translates 'to enjoy', and khiaao translates to fang...
    19 KB (2,123 words) - 04:53, 9 June 2024
  • person B that is a friend of both A and C. Thus the human relation "friend of a friend" is a compound relation among friends, similar to the uncle and aunt...
    9 KB (1,102 words) - 17:22, 15 May 2024
  • some person stage x prior to the time of utterance, such that x is a boy, and x bears the temporal counterpart relation to Ted." (Sider 2001:193) Kripke's...
    28 KB (4,529 words) - 00:29, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution...
    51 KB (6,413 words) - 09:53, 25 May 2024
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    A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease. A conventional sign...
    12 KB (1,589 words) - 00:46, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
    The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791,...
    279 KB (31,180 words) - 15:25, 11 May 2024
  • second—a statement of epistemic possibility—says something about the relation between a particular outcome (a victory by Japan) and our knowledge about the...
    4 KB (620 words) - 21:54, 1 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
    command for holy people to bear witness to their deity. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness:...
    37 KB (5,247 words) - 16:23, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relations (philosophy)
    entities stand to each other. They usually connect distinct entities but some associate an entity with itself. The adicity of a relation is the number...
    89 KB (9,805 words) - 13:21, 16 January 2024
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in relation to The Dark Knight, aiming to make a performance that would be "so far out he'd be fired"...
    63 KB (6,705 words) - 10:32, 30 May 2024
  • role maps to a noun phrase which bears an agent thematic relation. As such, the theta role is called the "agent" theta role. This often leads to confusion...
    17 KB (2,147 words) - 13:44, 21 October 2023
  • itself, or at least that a particular case is comprised under its provisions. Of fact, when not the relation of something to the law but the thing itself...
    4 KB (514 words) - 08:17, 22 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Philosophy of Freedom
    meaning of a percept after some form of conceptual framework has been brought to bear (for example, we give the right spatial meaning to the visually...
    52 KB (7,706 words) - 01:34, 3 June 2024
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