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  • 1Confirmation (Latter Day Saints) — A Latter Day Saint confirmation. In the Latter Day Saint movement, Confirmation (also known as the Gift of the Holy Ghost or the Baptism of Fire and of the Holy Ghost), is an ordinance essential for salvation. It involves the laying on of hands… …

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  • 2confirmation theory — The theory of the measure to which evidence supports a theory. A fully formalized confirmation theory would dictate the degree of confidence that a rational investigator might have in a theory, given some body of evidence. The grandfather of… …

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  • 3science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… …

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  • 4Computational epistemology — is a subdiscipline of formal epistemology that studies the intrinsic complexity of inductive problems for ideal and computationally bounded agents. In short, computational epistemology is to induction what recursion theory is to deduction.… …

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  • 5positivism — positivist, adj., n. positivistic, adj. positivistically, adv. /poz i teuh viz euhm/, n. 1. the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance. 2. a philosophical system founded by Auguste Comte, concerned with positive facts and… …

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  • 6Carnap — Rudolf Carnap Rudolf Carnap Philosophe Occidental Époque Contemporaine Naissance : 18 mai, 1891 (Ronsdorf, Allemagne) Décès : 14 septembre, 1970 (Santa Monica, Californie) …

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  • 7Rudolf Carnap — Philosophe occidental Époque contemporaine Naissance 18 mai, 1891 (Ronsdorf, Allemagne) Décès 14 septembre, 1970 (à 79 ans) (Santa Monica, Californie) École/tradition …

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  • 9Daucus carota — Wild Carrot redirects here. For the music group, see Wild Carrot (music group). Wild Carrot The umbel of a wild carrot Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 10Mark Pollock — “I am blind.” Pollock philosophises with the Irish Independent[1] Medal record Commonw …

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