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  • fixation. The name originates from the French idée [i.de], "idea" and fixe [fiks], "fixed." According to intellectual historian Jan E. Goldstein, the...
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    A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixed-wheel bicycle in British usage,[citation needed] commonly known in some places as a fixie) is a bicycle that has a drivetrain...
    54 KB (6,386 words) - 07:50, 23 May 2024
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    In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object...
    37 KB (4,685 words) - 03:52, 19 March 2024
  • his name is Idéfix, itself a pun on the French expression idée fixe (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. On January 6, 2021, it was announced that the character...
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  • The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the IFC, Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a proposed calendar reform designed...
    16 KB (2,124 words) - 17:35, 26 May 2024
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    was a new disease-concept characterised by the presence of an expansive fixed idea, in which the mind was diseased and deranged in some facets but otherwise...
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  • Frederick Schloss, who held that the amount of work is not fixed. The term originated to rebut the idea that reducing the number of hours employees are allowed...
    9 KB (1,015 words) - 03:49, 26 February 2024
  • Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after L. E. J. (Bertus) Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function f...
    61 KB (8,372 words) - 04:29, 23 January 2024
  • to Fanon, is a demonstration of nationhood, but one that holds on to a fixed idea of the nation as something of the past, a corpse.: 172  Ultimately, Fanon...
    25 KB (3,286 words) - 08:09, 22 May 2024
  • instance, are distressed by fixed and obsessive ideas ... and live in a permanent state of anxiety caused by a fixed idea which predominates over all...
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    physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself...
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    move and were therefore considered fixed. Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 BC studied and published similar ideas to Plato, and based on the Eudoxus'...
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    The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (c. 14) (FTPA) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which, for the first time, set in legislation a...
    57 KB (6,376 words) - 10:02, 29 May 2024
  • used to estimate fixed capital stocks was invented by Raymond W. Goldsmith in 1951 and subsequently used around the world. The basic idea of the PIM method...
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    'normal' behaviours but, even as it does so, it often affirms and promotes a fixed idea of what 'normal' is. Cambridge University Press. "SATIRE | definition...
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  • in various ways, DiValerio has suggested that Trungpa did not have a fixed idea of crazy wisdom. According to DiValerio, Keith Dowman's The Divine Madman:...
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  • cloned son José who is served by the Frankenstein's monster-resembling Fixed Ideas. Cybersix is also aided in fighting Dr. Von Reichter and José by her...
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  • "Fixed action pattern" is an ethological term describing an instinctive behavioral sequence that is highly stereotyped and species-characteristic. Fixed...
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    problems are fixed by the constant XOR proposed earlier, but the paper is not certain if all of them are. A more comprehensive redesign of the IDEA key schedule...
    12 KB (1,499 words) - 19:07, 14 April 2024
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    'North Sea' and the 'South Sea' was, since the conquest of Mesoamerica, a fixed idea of the Spanish monarchy and its representatives. Carlos V made this project...
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