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- Number Theory I INTRODUCTION Number Theory, branch of mathematics that deals with the properties and relationships of numbers (see Number).
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Proton
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Proton, elementary particle that carries a positive electric charge and, along with the electron and the neutron, is one of the building blocks of all atoms.
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- GEOPOLITICAL PROBLEMS THAT THE WORLD FACES TODAY
- Circle I INTRODUCTION Circle Terms Terms that apply to circles include the center, radius, diameter, secant, and tangent.
- Number (mathematics) I INTRODUCTION Number (mathematics), word or symbol used to designate quantities or entities that behave like quantities.
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These poems explore encounters between the speaker or a character and a force that is greater than he is – How do the poets develop and contemplate this experience? Refer to the details of language and effect as you compare these poems.
There is a certain fluidity to the poem, as if it was a story-telling. While enjambments such as “how bright / their frail deeds” creates a sense of smooth motion to the poem, sporadic rhymes break the rhythm of the poem yet emphasize the feeling of rage. The poem is completed by a rhyming couplet, which is also the refrain. A sense of harmony is created as the most important message of the poem concludes it. Piano by D.H Lawrence however, concentrates on a happy past as the melancholic and n...
- Egeria (Aegeria) Roman A goddess of springs, perhaps originally a goddess of the Babine people; also considered a deity that protected pregnant women and helped them bring their babies safely into the world.
- Number Systems I INTRODUCTION Number Systems, in mathematics, various notational systems that have been or are being used to represent the abstract quantities called numbers.
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Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra
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Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra, interconnected branches of mathematics that serve as fundamental tools in pure and applied mathematics and are becoming
increasingly important in the physical, biological, and social sciences.
vectors and V is called a vector space of dimension m. Two- and three-dimensional Euclidean spaces are vector spaces when their points are regarded as specified by ordered pairs or triples of real numbers. Matrices may be used to describe linear changes from one vector space into another. Contributed By:James Singer Reviewed By:J. Lennart BerggrenMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Creation Stories Creation Stories, myths that explain the origin of the universe, or cosmos.
- household gods Roman Throughout ancient Rome, people believed in a variety of gods that influenced their home lives.
- Pigs. Pigs live on farms and roll around in mud. That's
- Palladium Greek The sacred statue of Pallas Athene that was said to have fallen from heaven.
- Tecumseh: "Once a Happy Race" Early in the 19th century, Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory made a number of treaties with Native Americans that involved the ceding of land to the United States government.
- Fornax (Furnace) Roman A goddess of baking, who oversaw the ovens used for baking so that they did not become too hot and burn the roasting corn or bread.
- personal gods Roman The earliest Romans, those living on the hills that would eventually form the center of the great city and those living in nearby regions in the 700s and 600s b.
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- That's What She Said
- Latinus Roman A legendary, perhaps historical, king of the Latini or Latins, an original people of central Italy, and the hero from whom that people got their name.
- Walter Gropius Walter Gropius (1883-1969), German American architect and educator, who founded the Bauhaus, a German art school that became a seminal force in architecture and applied art during the first half of the 20th century.
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Hô Chi Minh
par Ton That Thien
Professeur à l'Université du Québec
par Ton That Thien Professeur à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Do you think that going to a memorial makes people feel better?
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L'Asie dans l'après-guerre
par Ton That Thien
Professeur à l'Université du Québec, Trois-Rivières
Un des faits les plus marquants de l'après-guerre est la rentrée de l'Asie sur
la scène internationale.
par Ton That Thien Professeur à l'Université du Québec, Trois-Rivières
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Behaviourism, analytic
2 Influences and arguments A first, important influence on analytical behaviourism was the doctrine of verificationism. According to one version of this view,the meanings of statements are given by the procedures used to find out if they are true. This was supposed to eliminate meanings as occult entities, and put the subject on a scientific footing. Anyone attracted by that view would have seen considerable merit in behaviourism. For we typically verify statements about other people's mental...
- ker (plural: Keres) Greek Female spirits that represented a person's death or perhaps destiny.
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Anomalous monism
in the following section. (Hereafter, ‘mental event' will be used in a restricted sense to mean acquiring or losing apropositional attitude.) 3 Psychophysical anomalism One way that psychophysical anomalism could fail is if there is a basic vocabulary for a closed, comprehensive theory that includes both mental and physical terms. A Cartesianinteractionist (see Dualism ) might argue that any basic vocabulary for a closed, comprehensive theory true of our world would have to contain both menta...
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Nixon's Checkers Speech
Under attack for having used a secret campaign fund for his personal expenses, Richard M.
The first way is to be a rich man. I don't happen to be a rich man so I couldn't use that. Another way that is used is to put your wife on the payroll. Let me say, incidentally, my opponent, my opposite number for the Vice Presidency on the Democraticticket, does have his wife on the payroll. And has had her on his payroll for the ten years—the past ten years. Now just let me say this. That's his business and I'm not critical of him for doing that. You will have to pass judgment on that particul...
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Commonsensism
2 Critical commonsensism: a systematic treatment ‘The slogans are impressive enough, ' one may say, ‘but how are they to be applied? ' In setting out, one presupposes that, by contemplating various possible beliefs, we can find out that some of them logically imply others, that some contradict others, that some are such that they serve to confirm others (they make the others probable) and that some are such as to disconfirm others (they make the others improbable). Probability, as Peirce con...
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Art and truth
literature can illuminate how we ought to live has come from Martha Nussbaum. Her detailed analyses of literaryworks - the novels of Henry James in particular - set out to show that literature provides a means of extending ourmoral awareness beyond the limits to which traditional moral philosophy can take us. 'Schematic philosophers'examples', Nussbaum says, 'almost always lack the particularity, the emotive appeal, the absorbing plottedness, thevariety and indeterminacy, of good fiction;...
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Belief
thought of as a relation to a proposition. A proposition is what is expressed by a sentence; it is what is in common between sentences in French and English that mean the same; the proposition expressed is what is grasped when you understand a sentence. Monolingual speakers believe alike by believing the same propositions; dogs have beliefs by virtue of believing propositions despite not having a language to express them; someone who believes that the sentence 'The Devil exists' is true whil...
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Belief and knowledge
know that it is the case. There are two advantages to this. First, when we accept that something is the case, we do so for a purpose, and the relevant purpose for epistemic agents is the pursuit of truth. When we believe (or harbour a conviction) we need not have any such purpose. So the use of 'acceptance' rather than 'conviction' helps us keep in sight the goal-oriented nature of epistemic agents. Second, a belief (and conviction) can be the product of entirely irrational factors, such as...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aesthetic attitude
there are some features that everyone with normal eyes, ears and intelligence perceives - shape or loudness, forexample. But there are also features that are perceived only by people with a special sensitivity - balance or unity,for example. These latter people are the ones who have taste. If a vase is gracefully curved, either one sees thegracefulness or one does not. Sibley believes that this explains why aesthetic concepts are not condition-governed.That is, no list of non-aesthetic features...
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EM Forster, A passage to India
helpless victim, however, partially to retain her dignity and partially because she remains unsure of the actual legitimacy of her charges. Two significant forces trouble Adela: ___The first is her doubt that Aziz is guilty of the crime with which she has charged him, and she even tells Ronny that she believes she has made a mistake. Mrs. Moore confirms this doubt, definitively stating to Adela that Aziz is innocent. Her statement contains great significance, for Mrs. Moore serves as a paragon o...
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Animal language and thought
this. Although Malcolm ( 1972-3 ) does not identify thought with language, he claims that the relationship is ‘so close that it is really senseless to conjecture that people may not have thoughts, and also really senseless to conjecture that animals may have thoughts'. However, we know that animals think because ‘in real life we commonly employ the verb "think" in respect to animals'. Clearly Malcolm believes that animal thinking does not involve havingthoughts, but says very little...
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Compositionality
sentence construction, an operation on meanings, such that the meaning of any sentence is mechanically determined by applying the operations on meanings (given by the rules used in constructing the sentence) to the meanings of the simple parts. (Often a host of extra restrictions are incorporated. For example: the operations may be limited to applying function to argument; the order in which operations are applied may be settled by the structure of the sentence.) Some see such principles as prov...
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Collingwood, Robin George
philosopher meant by a doctrine until you know the question to which the doctrine was intended as an answer andhow that question arose. Immediately it follows that you cannot tell whether propositions contradict each otherunless you know that they are answers to the same question. This is partly a plea for intelligent appreciation of thespace of problems within which different writers work, and in effect Collingwood is highlighting a version of whatlater became called the principle of charity (s...
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Art criticism
reason for praising you, it is reason for praising anyone who does that action in those circumstances. Some thinkers(Stuart Hampshire ( 1954 ), for example) have argued that reasoning in criticism is impossible because of the impossibility of this sort of generality in that context. Thus, it is claimed, the fact that a painting has a patch ofcolour in a certain position may be the explanation for its admirable compositional features. But the existence ofthat patch in that location cannot...
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Artistic forgery
pieces, including pure music, where expressiveness is present in the absence of a narrated or depicted content.Whose emotions are expressed thereby and how are they expressed? 3 Arousal theory One suggested answer to the above question is that we ascribe emotions to art works just because those emotions are awakened in us. This is the theory of emotivism or arousalism. Two cases need to bedistinguished. In the first, the art work or some aspect of it is the emotional object of a response in...
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Common-sense ethics
mind, common to all human beings. Reid thought this showed that God meant it to guide our wills. It is both an intellectual and active power. As an intellectual power, it enables us to intuit directly the first principles of morality. Reid thought that moral reasoning, and indeed all reasoning, must start from self-evident first principles which we perceive immediately. If we had to figure out the basic principles of morality by a process of ratiocination, as Locke maintained, morality would not...
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Atheism
difficult to find a plausible explanation in something other than the activity of an intelligent being. So, although thegrowth of the natural sciences did much to remove human dependence on the gods to explain events within nature,a foothold in ultimate explanations still remained; and certain phenomena in nature, particularly the apparent designin plants and animals, continued to suggest an intelligent being exercising a causal influence within nature. Anattack on the need and possibility...
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Woman in white chapter 5
didn't answer but he smiled. Then the next day the count and his wife were gone to London. Then Percival lied to Laura and said that Marian left the house and was in Cumberland. But that was not true, Percival said that was the only way to make Laura go to Cumberland. Then Eliza left the house. The cook's narrative When Laura arrived at London a Doctor examined and and said that a serious case of heart disease. She won't live much longer. And the next day she died. Then the cook answered tw...
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From The Pilgrim's Progress - anthology.
First, The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair, made agreat gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men. (I Corinthians ii.7, S.) Secondly, And as they wondered at their apparel, so they did likewise at their speech; for few could understand what they said; they naturally spoke the language ofCanaan, but they that kept the f...
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Certainty
the 'light of nature' ). In particular, he argued that those based upon experience (for example, 'there is a table before me' ) are never certain because there is always some legitimate basis for doubt. Other philosophers, for example, G.E. Moore, argued that many propositions based upon experience can be certain ( Moore, G.E. §3 ; Commonsensism ). The remainder of this entry discusses some of the more influential accounts of propositional certainty. A contextualist account has been dev...
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?The globalization is the process by which businesses or other
BONY BASSI THE ESSAY for industry. Deforestation therefore appears to be a solution to gain space and produce more and to allow the development of certain countries. And this is due to globalization. We also have water pollution due to the search for productivity in agriculture and industry. Globalisation therefore has negative effects on the environment. As inconvenient of globalisation, we can...
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Concepts
suggested that concept possession need not consist in knowing a definition, but in appreciating the role of a concept in thought and practice. Moreover, he claimed, a concept need not apply to things by virtue of some closed set of features captured by a definition, but rather by virtue of ‘family resemblances' among the things, a suggestion that has given rise in psychology to ‘prototype' theories of concepts. Most traditional approaches to possession conditions have been concerned with t...
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Big Bang Theory - astronomy.
hydrogen atoms. Hydrogen atoms can only absorb and emit specific colors, or wavelengths, of light. The formation of atoms allowed many other wavelengths of light,wavelengths that had been interfering with the free electrons prior to the cooling of the universe, to travel much farther than before. This change set free radiation thatwe can detect today. After billions of years of cooling, this cosmic background radiation is at about 3 K (-270°C/-454°F).The cosmic background radiation was first d...
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Community and communitarianism
makes fundamental ethical criticism's of one's own community impossible. The success of communitarianism as a political theory depends upon whether it can be demonstrated that liberal political institutions cannot provide adequate conditions for the flourishing of community or secure appropriate support for persons' identities so far as their identities are determined by their membership in communities. 1 Community If I am a member of a community, I conceive of the goals and values I shar...
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Flirtation Analysis
T hen in the second stanza, som ething sensual is present through “the orange peeled” w hich m ay be a m etaphor for a w om an w ho is undressed by som eone... H ow ever, the reader can w onder W hy an orange? M aybe that the w riter chose this fruit because it is som ething w e alw ays peeled w ith our hands and not w ith knife, w hich is nearer from nature, sensualism and m ore hum anist. A lso till the tw entieth century, the orange w as considered as a luxury and for this reas...
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Fondements historiques du droit constitutionnel britannique TD
constitution, it retains sufficient flexibility to allow adaptation to suit the changing circumstances of society with minimum procedural restraints. Codified/uncodified are better description than written/unwritten to better distinguish the UK constitution from that of other countries because most of the UK constitution is written but has never been codified into one single document. Yet flexibility should not be unrestrained, that is to say an ability to evolve can be constrained by existi...
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From Robinson Crusoe - anthology.
How strange a Chequer-Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as differing Circumstancespresent! To Day we love what to Morrow we hate; to Day we seek what to Morrow we shun; to Day we desire what to Morrow we fear; nay even tremble at theApprehensions of; this was exemplify'd in me at this Time in the most lively Manner imaginable; for I whose only Affliction was, that I seem'd banished from humanSociety, that I was alone, cir...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Action
act. Where someone Φs by Ψ-ing, Ψ-ing is said to be more basic than Φ-ing; and the basic act is defined as the one than which no other was more basic. Moving the body (that is, moving a bit of it in one or another way) isusually a basic act. When Mary raises her right arm directly - in order to vote at the meeting - raising the right armis the basic act. But in the unusual case in which someone raises their right arm by lifting it with their left arm,raising the right arm, although a bodily...