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  • 51Brockes, Barthold Heinrich — ▪ German poet born Sept. 22, 1680, Hamburg [Germany] died Jan. 16, 1747, Ritzebüttel, Cuxhaven       poet whose works were among the most influential expressions of the early Enlightenment in Germany.       The scion of a wealthy patrician family …

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  • 52chaos — 1 Historically, the contrast is between chaos, or the unordered, unformed, undifferentiated beginnings of things, and the cosmos, which is the ordered universe (see also logos ). The concept is thus implicit in early Greek cosmogony. 2 In modern… …

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  • 53chaos — /ˈkeɪɒs / (say kayos) noun 1. utter confusion or disorder, wholly without organisation or order. 2. (sometimes upper case) the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe (distinguished… …

  • 54chaos — [kā′äs΄] n. [L < Gr chaos, space, CHAOS (sense 1) < IE base * ĝheu , * ĝhei , to gape: see YAWN] 1. the disorder of formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe 2. extreme confusion or disorder 3 …

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  • 55New Foundations — In mathematical logic, New Foundations (NF) is an axiomatic set theory, conceived by Willard Van Orman Quine as a simplification of the theory of types of Principia Mathematica. Quine first proposed NF in a 1937 article titled New Foundations for …

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  • 56biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 57List of minor Star Wars characters — This article is about minor characters in the fictional Star Wars universe, who do not fit into any other category.AlisiaAlisia is a female Gran who works as a station nurse in the Med Center of Tansarii Point Station. She and a 2 1B Surgical… …

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  • 58Relational order theories — A number of independent lines of research depict the universe, including the social organization of living creatures which is of particular interest to humans, as systems, or networks, of relationships. Relational systems, or regimes, are often… …

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  • 59List of Marvel Family enemies — Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following: Contents 1 Acrobat 2 Adolf Hitler 3 Amoeba Family …

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  • 60Teleological argument — A teleological or design argument[1][2][3] is an argument for the existence of God. The argument is based on an interpretation of teleology wherein purpose and intelligent design appear to exist in Nature beyond the scope of any such human… …

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