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  • 51Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …

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  • 52quality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. attribute, property; excellence; trait, characteristic; status, brand, grade; nobility, gentility. See attribution, feeling, intrinsic, speciality. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A characteristic] Syn.… …

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  • 53accent — noun /ˈæksɛnt / (say aksent) 1. the distinctive character of a vowel or syllable determined by its degree or pattern of stress or musical tone. 2. any one of the degrees or patterns of stress used in a particular language as essential features of …

  • 54accent — accentless, adj. accentuable /ak sen chooh euh beuhl/, adj. n. /ak sent/; v. /ak sent, ak sent /, n. 1. prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these. 2. degree of prominence of a …

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  • 55metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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  • 56Emmerdale — For the 1994 debut album by The Cardigans, see Emmerdale (album). Hotten redirects here. For the Victorian pornographer, see John Camden Hotten. Emmerdale Current Emmerdale title card (introduced on 30 May 2011) …

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  • 57Channel 4 — This article is about the British television station. For other uses, see Channel 4 (disambiguation). Channel 4 Launched 2 November 1982 Owned by …

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  • 58Gentrification — and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people ( gentry ) acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities.[1] Urban gentrification is associated with movement. Consequent to gentrification,… …

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  • 59teacher education — Introduction       any of the formal programs that have been established for the preparation of teachers (higher education) at the elementary and secondary school levels.       While arrangements of one kind or another for the education of the… …

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  • 60SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …

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