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  • unbroken lines of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers to Roman philosophy, Early Islamic philosophy, Medieval Scholasticism...
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    interested in what the law is on a specific issue in a specific jurisdiction, philosophers of law are interested in identifying the features of law shared across...
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  • in the early issues of the magazine The Spectator in 1712. The term aesthetics was appropriated and coined with new meaning by the German philosopher...
    77 KB (8,776 words) - 21:03, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solid-propellant rocket
    rocket motor consists of a casing, nozzle, grain (propellant charge), and igniter. The solid grain mass burns in a predictable fashion to produce exhaust...
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    (literally owl, or grain eater in the night). Kaṇāda was influential in Indian philosophies appearing in various texts by dictators, philosophers, and more, such...
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    (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative...
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  • Pre-Socratic philosophers were mostly interested in cosmology, the beginning and the substance of the universe, but the inquiries of these early philosophers spanned...
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    Vespasian (category Jews and Judaism in the Roman Empire)
    order and grain shipments to Rome resumed. In addition to the uprising in Egypt, unrest and civil war continued in the rest of the empire in 70. Judea...
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    Three Miracles - carries water on cloth, produces a feast from a single grain, and stretches a beam of wood to help his father finish constructing a bed...
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    Henry James (redirect from The Finer Grain)
    among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James...
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  • films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Academy Awards are...
    509 KB (271 words) - 19:45, 2 June 2024
  • fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List of Quebec writers List of French Canadian writers from outside...
    205 KB (150 words) - 02:08, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parable of the Mustard Seed
    of the air come and lodge in its branches. In the Gospel of Mark: It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less...
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    Paper size (section Grain)
    paper grain on carton and ream labels, product brochures, swatch books and price lists in several ways: 1. You may see the words Grain Long or Grain Short...
    101 KB (7,909 words) - 02:23, 10 June 2024
  • translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those by Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus "e.g." and...
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  • heavily for policies in the interest of the Plebeians. These policies included land and wealth redistribution and subsidized grain to help the poor. Gerrard...
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  • are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through the works of Plato...
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  • Concept and object (category Articles lacking in-text citations from June 2023)
    In the philosophy of language, the distinction between concept and object is attributable to the German philosopher Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper...
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    as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism in its place, caused him...
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  • Biographical introduction in 'The eye of the needle' by Tony Morphet, 1980 Brushing Against the Grain: Oppositional Discourse in South Africa by Tony Morphet...
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