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21primitive communism — A term usually associated with Karl Marx , but most fully elaborated by Friedrich Engels (in The Origin of the Family, 1884), and referring to the collective right to basic resources, egalitarianism in social relationships, and absence of… …
22primitive society — A term used to refer both to the earliest societies and to recent examples with simple technology. It fell into disfavour as a description of any society of recent centuries, since none are relics of an earlier evolutionary stage, and each has… …
23History of primitive and non-Western trumpets — The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the… …
24primeval, primitive — Primeval, a rarely used word, means original, belonging to the earliest age or ages. It is derived from a Latin word meaning in the first period of life and was thus used in Longfellow s Evangeline: This is the forest primeval. Primitive, from a… …
25Geometric primitive — The term geometric primitive in computer graphics and CAD systems is used in various senses, with common meaning of atomic geometric objects the system can handle (draw, store). Sometimes the subroutines that draw the corresponding objects are… …
26History of logic — Philosophy ( …
27Argumentation theory — Argumentation theory, or argumentation, embraces the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion; studying rules of inference, logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real world settings. Argumentation is… …
28Alfred Tarski — in Berkeley Alfred Tarski bzw. ursprünglich Alfred Tajtelbaum oder Teitelbaum[1] (* 14. Januar 1901 (nach anderen Quellen: 1902) in Warschau; † 26. Oktober 1983 in Berkeley, USA …
29SHEFFER, HENRY M. — SHEFFER, HENRY M. (1883–1964), U.S. logician. Born in the Ukraine, Sheffer was taken to the U.S. at the age of 10. After teaching in various institutions, he was appointed to Harvard in 1916 and became a professor there in 1938. Though Sheffer… …
30Cthulhu Mythos — Term devised by August Derleth to denote the pseudomythology underlying some of HPL’s tales, chiefly the “cosmic” stories of his last decade of writing. It is difficult to know how seriously HPL himself regarded his invented pantheon or his …
