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  • 101Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …

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  • 102sacred — sacredly, adv. sacredness, n. /say krid/, adj. 1. devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. 2. entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy. 3. pertaining to or… …

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  • 103Hellenistic religion — Introduction       any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of eastern Mediterranean peoples from 300 BC to AD 300.       The period of Hellenistic influence, when taken as a whole, constitutes one of the most creative periods in the… …

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  • 104religion, study of — Introduction       attempt to understand the various aspects of religion, especially through the use of other intellectual disciplines.       The history of mankind has shown the pervasive influences of religion, and thus the study of religion,… …

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  • 105Traditionalist conservatism — Part of a series on Conservatism …

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  • 106abstract — adj Abstract, ideal, transcendent, transcendental are closely analogous rather than synonymous terms. The difference in meaning between abstract and ideal is not apparent when they are applied to things which are admirable in actuality as well as …

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  • 107CORDOVERO, MOSES BEN JACOB — (1522–1570), the outstanding kabbalist in Safed before isaac luria . His birthplace is unknown, but his name testifies to the family s Spanish origins. He was a disciple of joseph caro and of Solomon Alkabeẓ , and a teacher of Isaac Luria. His… …

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  • 108Panentheism — (from Greek Polytonic|πᾶν (pân) all ; Polytonic|ἐν (en) in ; and Polytonic|θεός (Theós) God ; all in God ) is a belief system which posits that God exists and interpenetrates every part of nature, and timelessly extends beyond as well.… …

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  • 109Raymond Kurzweil — Infobox Person name = Raymond Kurzweil image size = 250px caption = Raymond Kurzweil birth date = Birth date and age|1948|2|12|mf=y birth place = Queens, New York, United States death date = death place = height = 5 7 weight = 145 lbs occupation …

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  • 110Where Mathematics Comes From — Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (hereinafter WMCF ) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist. Published in 2000, WMCF seeks to found a cognitive… …

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