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  1. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    3:
    5: ...rets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an article and sermon about consumer des...
    7: ...e among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle...
    9: ==Early works==
    10:
  2. Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
    18: ... the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Senate.
    20: ...Lynchburg, Virginia]] in [[1982]]. She studied law at the [[University of Arkansas]].
    22: ... not stand for reelection in [[1996]] because she was [[pregnancy|pregnant]], and in [[U.S. Senate el...
    24: ...ecurity Task Force; Rural Health Caucus; Senate New Democrat Coalition.
    26: ...), which is designed to spur development in the lower [[Mississippi River Delta]] region. She is also...
  3. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    1: ...nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], foun...
    4: ...ined a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]...
    7: ...]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
    9: ...ich defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and state, and a...
    11: ...[[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
  4. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    4: ...caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosop...
    9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
    11: ... made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
    13: ...That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor oth...
    19: ...n present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
  5. Science (19868 bytes)
    3: ==What is science?==
    4: There are different theories of what "science" is.
    8: ...exercise those powers, and the sources of those powers in terms of the thing's structure or internal ...
    10: ...ake accurate predictions about earthquakes or the weather to qualify as sciences. Empiricist philosop...
    14: ... language, so the very notion of testing theories with [[facts]] is problematic.
  6. Florida (24937 bytes)
    17: WaterArea = 30,486 |
    18: PCWater = 17.9 |
    25: ...Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (western panhandle)|
    27: Longitude = 79?48'W to 87?38'W |
    28: Width = 260 |
  7. Aberration (558 bytes)
    1: ... or away + ''errare,'' to wander), a deviation or wandering, especially used in the figurative sense ...
    2: # In [[ethics]], a deviation from the truth.
    5: # In [[optics]], the word has two special applications:
  8. Andronicus of Rhodes (674 bytes)
    1: '''Andronicus of Rhodes''' (c. 70 B.C.), was the eleventh scholarch
    2: of the [[Peripatetics]]. His chief work was the arrangement of
    3: ...he writings of [[Aristotle]] and [[Theophrastus]] with materials
    4: ...ad been lost in obscurity. Besides arranging the works,
    5: he seems to have written paraphrases and commentaries, none
  9. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    1: ...ndex of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
    7: ...ou could drag it into your bookmarks toolbar, allowing the link to be accessible in the future from t...
    9: <!-- [[Wikipedia:Page size]] suggests not to divide lists ...
    10: ...se use the new section editing feature if your browser
    33: *[[Wikipedia:Library and Information Science basic top...
  10. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: ...] and their pre-cursors back in [[time]], all the way into human [[prehistory]].
    4: ...many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
    6: ...nquires about other areas of knowledge, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily u...
    11: ... scientific knowledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free,...
    13: ... can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of investigation.
  11. History of biology (3053 bytes)
    1: ...ivilization as classic philosophers did their own ways of biology as a system of understanding life.
    3: ...Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume 3 of [[M...
    5: ...plant]]s and [[animal]]s in the world around him, which he devote considerable attention to [[categor...
    7: ... field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
    9: Darwin's famous work ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' ([[1859]]) de...
  12. Human (48024 bytes)
    2: ...n = Image of a man and a woman,<br> sent to space with the [[Pioneer 11]] mission}}
    21: ...] belonging to the superfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorill...
    24: ...are said to be one of a short list of [[animal]]s with such a capacity.
    27: ...ons for [[consciousness]] and the the relation between mind and [[body]]. [[Psychology]] is the study...
    30: ...[[values]], and [[norm (sociology)|social norms]] which form the group's [[culture]].
  13. Politics (7193 bytes)
    4: ...cation of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
    6: ...s defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
    9: ...at men would enter into a [[social contract]] and would give up absolute rights for certain protectio...
    11:
    14: ...ests and lawyers), taxation, and writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - citie...
  14. Aristotle (37648 bytes)
    4: ...sophers in [[Western world|Western]] thought. He wrote many books about [[physics]], [[poetry]], [[z...
    8: ...ectly, through Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[...
    10: ...l as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a ...
    12: ...are ''Physics'', ''Metaphysics'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and...
    14: ...ctically comprise an [[encyclopedia]] of Greek knowledge.
  15. Plato (17363 bytes)
    2: ...er)|spring]] of water, and, metaphorically, of knowledge.
    4: ...dialogues of Plato survive; some of the dialogues which the Greeks ascribed to him are considered by...
    6: ... given dialogue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it Plato's.
    8: ... series of footnotes to Plato." -- [[Alfred North Whitehead]], Process and Reality, 1929]]
    12: ...efers either to his physical appearance or to his wrestling stance or style.
  16. Anthropology (23191 bytes)
    1: ...oversy and debate, with anthropological methods now being commonly applied in single society/group st...
    4: * [[physical anthropology]], which studies [[primatology|primate behavior]], [[h...
    5: ... with strong emphasis on the importance of [[fieldwork]], i.e living among the social group being stu...
    6: ... social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture; and
    7: ...which deals with physical objects created or used within a living or past group as mediums of underst...
  17. Economics (30960 bytes)
    1: ...s or a set of [[observation]]s, and [[normative]] when it prescribes that a certain action should be ...
    3: ...]]''', which considers the economy as a whole, in which case it considers [[aggregate supply]] and [[...
    5: ...ions or events, it also analyses the behaviour of whole societies. (See also [[sociology]], [[politic...
    7: ...economics focused on the satisfaction of material wants and this remains the focus of economics. As ...
    9: ...go.jpg|thumb|250px|Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in [[Chich...
  18. Religion (72319 bytes)
    1: ...answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the [[developm...
    2: ...ionally, the word "religion" is used to designate what should be more properly described as a "religi...
    4: ... a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Stupa|stupa]] built between [[8th century|750 and 850]]]]
    10: ...arpur]], is ''re + ligio'' or "reconnection." However, some take the Latin term "ligio" (as in [[li...
    15: ...d "religion." Some of the approaches are as follows:
  19. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
    2: ...ake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
    4: ...rary application in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
    6: ...to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as...
    8: The 18th century also saw a continued rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] ph...
    10: ...a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.
  20. United States Senate (35505 bytes)
    2: ... ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the Advice and Consent of the Senate" ([[Artic...
    4: ...n those of the House of Representatives (the "[[lower house]]").
    6: ...he House of Representatives convenes in the south wing of the same building.
    10: ...s, distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likenes...
    12: ...n answer to a question by Thomas Jefferson, said "we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to c...

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