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  • 11pure — pureness, n. /pyoor/, adj., purer, purest. 1. free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water. 2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous. 3. of unmixed descent or… …

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  • 12pure — [[t]pyʊər[/t]] adj. pur•er, pur•est 1) free from adulterating or extraneous matter: pure gold[/ex] 2) free from contamination, pollution, or dirt; clean: pure water[/ex] 3) not modified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous: pure white[/ex] 4)… …

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  • 13pure*/*/ — [pjʊə] adj 1) a pure substance has nothing mixed with it that might spoil its quality Ant: impure pure gold/alcohol[/ex] clean, pure drinking water[/ex] 2) used for emphasis a smile of pure happiness[/ex] Perhaps it was pure chance that the other …

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  • 14pure — /ˈpjuə / (say pyoohuh), /pjʊə / (say pyoouh) adjective (purer, purest) 1. free from extraneous matter, or from mixture with anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind: pure gold. 2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous …

  • 15Science (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of science Mach, Duhem, Bachelard Babette E.Babich THE TRADITION OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE If the philosophy of science is not typically represented as a ‘continental’ discipline it is nevertheless historically rooted in… …

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  • 16Science wars — The Science wars were a series of intellectual battles in the 1990s between postmodernists and realists (though neither party would likely use the terms to describe themselves) about the nature of scientific theories. In brief, the postmodernists …

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  • 17Science and technology in the Soviet Union — In the Soviet Union, science and technology served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity. From the time of Lenin until the dissolution of the USSR in the early 1990s, both science and technology were intimately linked …

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  • 18science — Synonyms and related words: academic discipline, academic specialty, applied science, area, arena, art, body of knowledge, branch, concern, craft, department of knowledge, discipline, domain, electrobiology, electrochemistry, electrokinetics,… …

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  • 19Science moderne — Science Pour les articles homonymes, voir Science (homonymie). Prométhée apportant le feu a …

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  • 20Pure sociology — is a controversial but revolutionary fact|date=July 2008 approach developed by Donald Black as an alternative to the individualistic focus of virtually all previous theories and paradigms in the discipline. Initially developed to explain… …

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