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  • 41Duration (philosophy) — Henri Bergson in 1927. Duration is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer s… …

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  • 42Quantum Zeno effect — The quantum Zeno effect is a name coined by George Sudarshan and Baidyanaith Misra of the University of Texas in 1977 in their analysis of the situation in which an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.Citation | last =… …

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  • 43Megarian school of philosophy — The Megarian school of philosophy was founded by Euclides of Megara, one of the pupils of Socrates.Two main elements went to make up the Megarian as a doctrine. Like the Cynics and the Cyrenaics, Euclides started from the Socratic principle that… …

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  • 44History of philosophy — The history of philosophy is the study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time. Issues specifically related to history of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically?… …

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  • 45analytic philosophy — n. a 20th cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical… …

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  • 46paradoxes of Zeno — Arguments by which Zeno of Elea upheld the doctrine of Parmenides that real Being is unique and unchanging. Zeno s arguments were aimed at discrediting the beliefs in plurality and motion that were inconsistent with Parmenides doctrine. His best… …

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  • 47Pre-Socratic philosophy — The Pre Socratic Greek philosophers were active before Socrates or contemporaneously, but expounding knowledge developed earlier. The popularity of the term originates with Hermann Diels work Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker ( The Fragments of the …

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  • 48101 Philosophy Problems — is a book by Martin Cohen published by Routledge in 1999 . It has run to three English editions and been translated into German, Dutch, Greek, Estonian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and complex), Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and other languages,… …

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  • 49Pluralism (philosophy) — This article is about the term pluralism in branches of philosophy. For the ancient Greek school of thought, see Pluralist school. Pluralism is a term used in philosophy, meaning doctrine of multiplicity , often used in opposition to monism (… …

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  • 50Infinity (philosophy) — In philosophy, infinity can be attributed to space and time, as for instance in Kant s first antinomy. In both theology and philosophy, infinity is explored in articles such as the Ultimate, the Absolute, God, and Zeno s paradoxes. In Greek… …

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