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51Commodity fetishism — Part of a series on Marxism …
52oligarchy — /ol i gahr kee/, n., pl. oligarchies. 1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few. 2. a state or organization so ruled. 3. the persons or class so ruling. [1570 80; …
53philosophy, Western — Introduction history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present. This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …
54NP-hard — For a gentler introduction, see P versus NP problem. Euler diagram for P, NP, NP complete, and NP hard set of problems NP hard (non deterministic polynomial time hard), in computational complexity theory, is a class of problems that are,… …
55Operator Grammar — For the class of formal computer languages, see Operator precedence grammar. Operator Grammar is a mathematical theory of human language that explains how language carries information. This theory is the culmination of the life work of Zellig… …
56Empiricism — John Locke, a leading philosopher of British empiricism This article is about the field of philosophy. For the album by Borknagar, see Empiricism (album). Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via …
57Group representation — In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; in particular, they can be used to represent group elements as matrices so that the group… …
58Meta-ethics — In philosophy, meta ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, statements, attitudes, and judgments. Meta ethics is one of the three branches of ethics generally recognized by philosophers, the… …
59Physicalism — is a philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things. The term was coined by Otto Neurath in a series of early… …
60Johann Friedrich Herbart — (May 4, 1776 August 11, 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline.Herbart is now remembered amongst the post Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel; this in… …
