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    characters in the book illustrating the corruption of power; his desire for knowledge and order leads to his fall, and he rejects the chance of redemption...
    35 KB (4,738 words) - 21:02, 27 April 2024
  • Silmarils as embodying Elvish pride in their own creation, or a Biblical desire for knowledge of good and evil as in the Genesis story of Garden of Eden. Verlyn...
    20 KB (2,414 words) - 16:43, 25 April 2024
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    human knowledge. The evolution from Multivac to AC also emulates a sort of cycle of existence. Multivac's purpose was conceptualized with a desire for knowledge...
    15 KB (1,713 words) - 01:31, 31 May 2024
  • nature of knowledge and the conditions required for a belief to constitute knowledge, such as truth and justification; Potential sources of knowledge and justified...
    133 KB (13,790 words) - 19:56, 30 May 2024
  • signifier in the forefront". Freud himself accepted that he had a vast desire for knowledge and knew well how theorising can become a compulsive activity. He...
    10 KB (1,322 words) - 15:02, 11 May 2024
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    development, from which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill. The term curiosity can also denote the behavior, characteristic...
    39 KB (4,469 words) - 00:45, 14 May 2024
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    inside the box. Symbolically, the box represents the curiosity and desire for knowledge that can lead to both negative consequences and positive outcomes...
    37 KB (4,790 words) - 22:16, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
    until 1577, when the ill-will of some of his relatives and his own desire for knowledge caused him to run away to Viborg. There he attended the grammar school...
    10 KB (1,209 words) - 14:21, 26 March 2024
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    zeal into Ulysses' unquenched desire for knowledge:      And this gray spirit yearning in desire      To follow knowledge like a sinking star,      Beyond...
    33 KB (4,450 words) - 20:31, 11 November 2023
  • destroyed and they are incarcerated by the king and queen, who desire their knowledge. When the witches offend Akasha, the queen condemns the twins. Enkil...
    9 KB (1,153 words) - 16:47, 15 April 2024
  • Adûnaic word for Atalantë is Akallabêth, the name of the story of the Downfall. The Biblical temptation before the fall was the desire for knowledge of good...
    34 KB (3,940 words) - 21:13, 8 June 2024
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    Men as reflecting Satan's temptation of Adam and Eve, and the desire for godlike knowledge as in the Garden of Eden. Others have likened Fëanor to the Anglo-Saxon...
    28 KB (2,821 words) - 09:12, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Claude Bernard
    writes: Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped...
    25 KB (3,117 words) - 02:04, 27 May 2024
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    besides medicine, astrology and "other magical arts". His boundless desire for knowledge leads him to conjure the devil in a wood near Wittenberg, who appears...
    20 KB (2,497 words) - 19:58, 7 June 2024
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    Barad-Dur. Saruman's character illustrates the corruption of power; his desire for knowledge and order leads to his fall, and he rejects the chance of redemption...
    22 KB (2,606 words) - 07:05, 5 May 2024
  • the relationship. Desire for knowledge: to know and be known by the partner. Emotional Attraction to the other; pleasant feelings for the other when things...
    15 KB (1,483 words) - 15:20, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knowledge management
    Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization...
    67 KB (6,782 words) - 19:36, 19 February 2024
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    are known as muridin (singular murid), meaning "desirous", viz. "desiring the knowledge of God and loving God" (also called a faqir). Tariqa is also believed...
    13 KB (1,677 words) - 17:28, 15 April 2024
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    knowledge or learning subject material" as their motivation to do well in school. As a result of these outside sources, and not a genuine desire for knowledge...
    43 KB (4,885 words) - 20:40, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forbidden fruit
    shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4–5, KJV Desiring this knowledge, the woman eats the forbidden fruit and gives some to the man,...
    16 KB (2,024 words) - 18:03, 26 May 2024
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