In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: being (part. of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: writing about, study of) is the most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It studi ...

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• Ontology - Body and environment
• Ontology - Being
• Ontology - Social Science
• Ontology - Prominent ontologists

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The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, commonly known as Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God") or Opus ("the Work"), is a prelature created by the Roman Catholic Church, composed of a prelate, secular priests, and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint and an apostle. The Opus Dei Prelature "encourages Christians of all social classes to live consistently with their faith in the middle of ...

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• Opus Dei - Doctrine demands and consequences
• Opus Dei - Novelty of doctrine and controversies
• Opus Dei - Fidelity and truth vs. ultraconservatism
• Opus Dei - Demands: theological basis
• Opus Dei - Allegations of being a cult
• Opus Dei - Canonisation of Opus Dei's founder
• Opus Dei - Opus Dei in society
• Opus Dei - Mission and general strategy
• Opus Dei - Membership profile
• Opus Dei - Activities and work
• Opus Dei - Freedom and pluralism vs. far-right politics
• Opus Dei - Revolutionary or conservative?
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Flag of the Cherokee Nation The seal of the United Keetoowah Band Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma (f):    175,000+ United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma (f):    10,000 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina (f):    10,000+ (f) = federally recognized Cherokee society refers to the society and culture of the Cherokee (or ah-ni-yv-wi-ya in Cherokee) people. The Cherokee are a peo ...

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• Cherokee society - The seven Cherokee clans
• Cherokee society - Blood revenge
• Cherokee society - The Council House
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• Cherokee society - White government
• Cherokee society - Red government
• Cherokee society - Cherokee society
• Cherokee society - Seven festivals of the Cherokee
• Cherokee society - Cultural values and traditional views
• Cherokee society - Centrality of family
• Cherokee society - Leadership
• Cherokee society - Principle of non-interference
• Cherokee society - Purpose of life
• Cherokee society - Sacred ceremonies and traditons
• Cherokee society - Naming
• Cherokee society - Traditional use of masks

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Cuisine | Kitchens Wikibooks: Cookbook A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. A meal is composed of food. Food can be treated as a code, the message that is found in the pattern can express social relations. Meals occur primarily at homes, restaurants, and cafeterias, but may occur anywhere . Regular meals occur on a daily basis, typically several times a day. Specia ...

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Level has more than one meaning. A noun meaning "degree" or "extent" (particularly of competence or skill): In computer and video games, particularly role-playing games: "levels" represent skill and experience; see experience point "leveling" is the process of gaining levels, a common activity in MMORPGs In language education, see Interagency Language Roundtable scale Sound pressure level is a measure related to Decibels A noun mea

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Matriarchy is a form of society in which power is conceived as lying with the women and especially with the mothers of a community. The word matriarchy derives from the Latin word mater meaning mother and the Greek word archein meaning to rule. There exists a different term for 'women's rule', it is gynocracy. Matriarchy is distinct from matrilineality, where children are identified in terms of their mother rather than their father, and extended families an ...

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• Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology
• Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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A pilgrimage is a term primarily used in religion and spirituality of a long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Members of every religion participate in pilgrimages. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. Secular and civic pilgrimages are also practiced, without regard for religion but rather of importance to a particular society. For example, many people throughout the world travel to the City of Wa ...

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• Pilgrimage - Jainism
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Oscillation is the periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with oscillation. Oscillations occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society. Oscillations are the origin of the sensation of musical tone. Oscillation - Simple systems. The simplest oscillating system is a mass, s ...

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• Oscillation - Self-exciting systems
• Oscillation - Coupled oscillations
• Oscillation - Continuous systems - waves
• Oscillation - Neural systems
• Oscillation - Examples
• Oscillation - Mechanical
• Oscillation - Electrical
• Oscillation - Electro-mechanical
• Oscillation - Biological
• Oscillation - Human
• Oscillation - Economic and social
• Oscillation - Climate and geophysics

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Science (from Latin scientia - knowledge) refers to a system of acquiring knowledge - based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism - aimed at finding out the truth. The basic unit of knowledge is the theory, which is a hypothesis that is predictive. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research. Most scientists feel that scientific investigation must adhere to the scientific method, a process for evaluating empirical knowledge under the w ...

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• Science - Holistic interdisciplinary and applied sciences
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Socialism Part of the Politics series History of socialism Democratic socialism Christian socialism Communism Libertarian socialism Social democracy Egalitarianism Democracy Equality of outcome Class struggle Proletarian revolution Marxism Anarchism Trade unionism Internationalism Utilitarianism Mixed economy Socialist economics Soci ...

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• Socialism - A note on usage
• Socialism - What distinguishes the various types of socialism
• Socialism - An economic system
• Socialism - A state that exists or has existed or may exist
• Socialism - Socialism as transition from capitalism
• Socialism - Socialism and the mixed economy
• Socialism - Opposition and criticisms of socialism; arguments for and against
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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. Rousseau's political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, ...

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• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Legacy
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Notes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Major works
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Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists." The term "Reality," in its most liberal sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable, accessible or understandable by science, philosophy, theology or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas "existence" is often restricted to being. (Compare with nature). In the strict sense of European-German philosophy, there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. These levels include, from the most subjective to the most rigorous: Phenomenological reality ...

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• Reality - Philosophical views of reality

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. In ancient Egyptian mythology and in myths derived from it, the phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird. Said to live for 500, 1461 or for 12594 years (depending on the source), the phoenix is a male bird with beautiful gold and red plumage. At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and ...

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Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. (born January 31, 1949, Oklahoma City, USA) is an American and Buddhist philosopher and psychological theorist. His work focuses mainly on creating an "integral theory of consciousness" in which the insights of mysticism, postmodernism, science and systems theory come together to form a coherent picture of the Kosmos. In Kosmic Consciousness, Wilber states that he considers himself a storyteller and a mapmaker; his stories address universal questions and his m ...

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• Ken Wilber - AQAL
• Ken Wilber - The two truths doctrine
• Ken Wilber - The pre/trans fallacy
• Ken Wilber - Wilber on science
• Ken Wilber - New work
• Ken Wilber - Influences on Wilber
• Ken Wilber - Wilber's influence
• Ken Wilber - Wilber's five phases
• Ken Wilber - Critiques
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Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. Joseph Campbell - Life. Campbell was born and raised in New York City in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native A ...

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• Joseph Campbell - Hero mythology and the monomyth
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Confucius The original member of "Massachusetts Most Wanted"(originally K'ung Fu-Tzu, traditionally September 28 551 BCE–479 BCE) was a famous thinker and social philosopher of China, whose teachings have deeply influenced East Asia for centuries. Living in what is referred to as the Spring and Autumn period (a time when feudal states fought against each other), he was convinced of his ability to restore the world's order, and failed. After much travelling around China to promote his ideas among rulers, he eventually b ...

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• Confucius - Philosophy
• Confucius - Ethics
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• Confucius - Home town

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The term cognition (Latin, cogito: to think) is used in several different loosely related ways. In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and intentions) and can be understood in terms of information processing, especially when a lot of abstraction or concretization is involved, or processes such as involving knowledge, expertise or learning for example are at work. It is also used ...

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• Cognition - Cognition in a cultural context
• Cognition - Example of emergent organization
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A clan is a group of people united by kinship and descent, which is defined by perceived descent from a common ancestor. Even if actual lineage patterns are unknown, clan members nonetheless recognize a founding member or apical ancestor. As kinship based bonds can be merely symbolical in nature some clans share a "stipulated" common ancestor, which is a symbol of the clan's unity. When this ancestor is not human, this is referred to as animallian totem. Generally speaking, kinship differs from biological relation, as it also involves ...

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• Clan - Armenia
• Clan - China
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• Clan - Ireland
• Clan - Japan
• Clan - Korea
• Clan - Among Serbs
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An aquarium (plural aquariums or aquaria) is a clear-sided container (typically constructed of glass or high-strength plastic) in which water-dwelling plants and animals (usually fish, and sometimes invertebrates, as well as amphibians, marine mammals, and reptiles) are kept in captivity, often for public display; or it is an establishment featuring such displays. Aquarium keeping is a popular hobby around the world, with about 60 million enthusiasts worldwide. From the 1850s, when the predecessor of the modern aquarium ...

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• Aquarium - History and development
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• Aquarium - Glass enclosures
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• Aquarium - Design
• Aquarium - Classifications
• Aquarium - Species selection
• Aquarium - Source of aquarium inhabitants
• Aquarium - Ecology
• Aquarium - Nitrogen cycle
• Aquarium - Other nutrient cycles
• Aquarium - Biological loading
• Aquarium - Public aquaria

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Deus. Deus is the Latin word for "God", "deity". Dyēus is the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo European pantheon. He was the god of the daylit sky, and his position may have mirrored the position of patriarch or king in society. dEUS is a Belgian rock band. Deus is a mechanical "God" in the PS1 game "Xenogears". Deus is the title given to contestants in the manga/anime "Angelic Layer". D

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Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests, and issues in society. Within academia, some feminists focus on documenting gender inequalities that oppress women and on changes in the social position and representati ...

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• Feminism - Origins
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• Feminism - Subtypes of feminism
• Feminism - Relationship to other movements
• Feminism - Effects of feminism in the West
• Feminism - Effects on civil rights
• Feminism - Effect on language
• Feminism - Effect on heterosexual relationships
• Feminism - Effect on religion
• Feminism - Effect on moral education
• Feminism - Effects of feminism in the East
• Feminism - Worldwide statistics
• Feminism - Perspective: the nature of the modern movement
• Feminism - Contemporary criticisms of feminism
• Feminism - Famous feminists
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Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man"): a bipedal primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, together with the other apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Humans have an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects and a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, speech, language, and ...

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• Human - Terminology
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• Human - Life cycle
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• Human - Race and ethnicity
• Human - Habitat
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• Human - Human evolution
• Human - Intelligence
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• Human - Origins
• Human - Language
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• Human - Emotion and sexuality
• Human - Body image
• Human - Trade and economics
• Human - Artifacts technology and science
• Human - Mind
• Human - Psychology and human ethology
• Human - Philosophy
• Human - Motivation
• Human - Self-reflection and humanism
• Human - Spirit

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