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121Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg — (November 30, 1802–January 24, 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist. Early lifeHe was born at Eutin, near Lübeck. He was educated at the universities of Kiel, Leipzig, and Berlin. He became more and more attracted to the study of Plato… …
122Theodore W. Allen — Theodore William Allen (August 23, 1919 January 19, 2005) was an independent, self educated, working class intellectual, writer, and activist and the author of the two volume history The Invention of the White Race. His many writings and seminal… …
123The Naturalization of Intentionality — Naturalization of Intentionality = Naturalization of Intentionality According to Franz Brentano, intentionality refers to the “aboutness of mental states that cannot be a physical relation between a mental state and what is about (its object)… …
124Reverse engineering — is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object, or system through analysis of its structure, function, and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g., a mechanical device, electronic component, software… …
125Time in physics — In physics, the treatment of time is a central issue. It has been treated as a question of geometry. One can measure time and treat it as a geometrical dimension, such as length, and perform mathematical operations on it. It is a scalar quantity… …
126Walter A. Shewhart — Shewhart, Walter Andrew, né le 18 mars 1891 à New Canton (Illinois) et mort le 11 mars 1967 à Troy Hills (New Jersey) est un statisticien américain. Marié le 4 août 1914 avec Edna Hart, il effectue des études supérieures à l’Université d’Illinois …
127meditation — /med i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of meditating. 2. continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation. 3. See transcendental meditation. 4. devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection. [1175 1225; < L meditation (s. of… …
128motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …
