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  • 61Herbert Spencer — Firma …

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  • 62Спенсер, Герберт — Герберт Спенсер Herbert Spencer Дата …

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  • 63Provincial Council — • A deliberative assembly of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province, summoned and presided over by the metropolitan, to discuss ecclesiastical affairs and enact disciplinary regulations for the province. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …

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  • 64antinomy — A paradox . In Kant s first Critique the antinomies of pure reason show that contradictory conclusions about the world as a whole can be drawn with equal propriety. Each antinomy has a thesis and a contradictory antithesis. The first antinomy has …

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  • 65instrumentalism — The view that a scientific theory is to be regarded as an instrument for producing new predictions or new techniques for controlling events, but not as itself capable of literal truth or falsity. The most famous example of this claim is that of… …

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  • 66James, William — American pragmatism James J.E.Tiles THE BERKELEY LECTURE Pragmatism was introduced to society in a lecture given by William James1 to the Philosophical Union at the University of California in Berkeley on 26 August 1898.2 In his lecture James… …

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  • 67SPENCER, HERBERT —    systematiser and unifier of scientific knowledge up to date, born at Derby, son of a teacher, who early inoculated him with an interest in natural objects, though he adopted at first the profession of a railway engineer, which in about eight… …

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  • 68bailiwick — district of a bailiff, early 15c., baillifwik, from BAILIFF (Cf. bailiff) (q.v.) + O.E. wic village (see WICK (Cf. wick) (2)). Figurative sense of one s natural or proper sphere is first recorded 1843 …

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  • 69impertinent — (adj.) late 14c., unconnected, unrelated, not to the point, from O.Fr. impertinent (14c.) or directly from L.L. impertinentem (nom. impertinens) not belonging, lit. not to the point, from assimilated form of L. in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in …

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  • 70fish out of water — phrasal : a person that is out of his proper sphere or element …

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