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111Wargaming — This article is about the civilian hobby. For military training exercises, see Military exercise. For simulations as military training exercises, see Military simulation. For video wargames, see Wargame (video games). For other, similar terms,… …
112Infinite monkey theorem — Not to be confused with Hundredth monkey effect. Given enough time, a hypothetical monkey typing at random would, as part of its output, almost surely produce all of Shakespeare s plays. In this image a chimpanzee is giving it a try. The infinite …
113Phenomenalism — In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli (e.g. redness, hardness, softness, sweetness, etc.)… …
114Prices of production — refers to a concept in Karl Marx s critique of political economy. It is introduced in the third volume of Das Kapital, where Marx considers the operation of capitalist production as the unity of a production process and a circulation process… …
115Plato's Problem — is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is used in linguistics… …
116Jesus bloodline — A Jesus bloodline is a hypothetical sequence of direct descendants of the historical Jesus and Mary Magdalene, or some other woman, usually portrayed as his alleged wife or a hierodule. Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline… …
117Avicennism — (PerB|فلسفه سینایی) is a school of early Islamic philosophy which began during the middle of the Islamic Golden Age. The school was founded by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), an 11th century Persian philosopher who attempted to redefine the course of… …
118Judgment (mathematical logic) — In mathematical logic, a judgment can be for example an assertion about occurrence of a free variable in an expression of the object language, or about provability of a proposition (either as a tautology or from a given context); but judgments… …
119dilemma — dilemmatic /dil euh mat ik/, dilemmatical, dilemmic, adj. dilemmatically, adv. /di lem euh/, n. 1. a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives. 2. any difficult or perplexing situation or problem. 3. Logic. a form of… …
120economic stabilizer — Any of the institutions and practices in an economy that serve to reduce fluctuations in the business cycle through offsetting effects on the amounts of income available for spending (disposable income). The progressive income tax, unemployment… …
