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  • 101Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… …

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  • 102discard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. cast off, reject, abandon, repudiate, throw aside. See nullification, ejection, disuse, relinquishment. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. reject, throw away, get rid of, dispose of, throw out, expel,… …

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  • 103Cooperation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Cooperation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cooperation cooperation Sgm: N 1 coadjuvancy coadjuvancy coadjutancy Sgm: N 1 coagency coagency coefficiency Sgm: N 1 concert concert concurrence complicity …

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  • 104Set — 1. v. (setting; past and past part. set) 1 tr. put, lay, or stand (a thing) in a certain position or location (set it on the table; set it upright). 2 tr. (foll. by to) apply (one thing) to (another) (set pen to paper). 3 tr. a fix ready or in… …

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  • 105set — 1. v. (setting; past and past part. set) 1 tr. put, lay, or stand (a thing) in a certain position or location (set it on the table; set it upright). 2 tr. (foll. by to) apply (one thing) to (another) (set pen to paper). 3 tr. a fix ready or in… …

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  • 106RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS — (Heb. חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ḥasidei ummot ha olam), term applied to non Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors by endangering their own lives. (For earlier use of the term see Ḥasidei Ummot ha Olam. ) In 1953 the Israeli parliament… …

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  • 107play — [[t]pleɪ[/t]] n. 1) a dramatic composition; drama 2) a dramatic performance, as on the stage 3) activity, often spontaneous, engaged in for recreation, as by children 4) fun or jest, as opposed to earnest: I said it merely in play[/ex] 5) a pun… …

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  • 108set — [set] vt. set, setting [ME setten < OE settan (akin to Ger setzen & Goth satjan < Gmc * satjan), caus. formation “to cause to sit” < base of SIT] 1. to place in a sitting position; cause to sit; seat 2. a) to cause (a fowl) to sit on… …

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  • 109Rastafari movement — Main doctrines Jah · Afrocentrism …

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  • 110Gospel of Thomas — For a similarly titled work, see Infancy Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non canonical sayings gospel discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in… …

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