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  • The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New Testament apocrypha that was unearthed among the texts of the Nag Hammadi ...
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  • David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ...
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  • Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human women and “sons of God” (proposed to be giants or proto humans), who ...
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  • In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...
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  • Isaac Kaufmann Funk (Sept. 10, 1839 - April 4, 1912) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer ...
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  • Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In 1876 he became a professor ...
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  • Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = | ...
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  • Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas, "the golden speaker") (c. 676 – December 5, 749) was a Syrian ...
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  • Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries ...
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  • category:image wanted Generally, a fact is defined as something that is true, something that can be verified according to an established standard ...
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  • Mohism ( c=墨家|p=Mòjiā ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ...
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  • Necromancy (Greek: νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon "operative spirits ...
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  • Category:Economists Category:Politicians and reformers Hayek, Friedrich [[Image:FvonHayek.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Friedrich Hayek]] ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the ...
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the ...
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  • Information explosion is a term used to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; 129 C.E. – c. 210 C.E.) was the Greek physician and philosopher whose views ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Comte, Auguste [[Image:Auguste_Comte.jpg|thumb|right|Auguste Comte]] Auguste Comte (full name Isidore Marie Auguste François ...
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  • Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...
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