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  • 22demonstration — noun /demənˈstreɪʃən/ a) The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something. I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and Im ill prepared. b) An event at which something will be demonstrated. He read the proposition. So he… …

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  • 23Locke: knowledge and its limits — Ian Tipton I That John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding is one of the philosophical classics is something nobody would deny, yet it is not easy to pinpoint precisely what is so special about it. Locke himself has been described as the …

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  • 24Whewell’s philosophy of science and ethics — Struan Jacobs ON SCIENCE Introduction Among the most prodigious of English minds of the nineteenth century, William Whewell (1794–1866) was at various times, and among other things, philosopher, intellectual historian, scientist, educationist,… …

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  • 25axiom — Synonyms and related words: a belief, a priori principle, a priori truth, absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, adage, admitted fact, affirmation, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, apriorism, article of faith, assertion, assumed position,… …

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  • 26postulate — Synonyms and related words: a priori principle, a priori truth, absolute fact, accepted fact, actual fact, admitted fact, advance, affirm, affirmation, apriorism, assert, assertion, assume, assumed position, assumption, avant propos, aver, axiom …

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  • 27Agnosticism — Certainty series Agnosticism Belief Certainty Doubt Determinism Epistemology Estimation Fallibilism …

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  • 28theorem — noun Etymology: Late Latin theorema, from Greek theōrēma, from theōrein to look at, from theōros spectator, from thea act of seeing more at theater Date: 1551 1. a formula, proposition, or statement in mathematics or logic deduced or to be… …

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  • 30Equal Protection Clause — The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that no state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [… …

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