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Admonition
ADMONITION Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them. A reprimand directed by the court to an... Read more |
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Alexander Bryan Johnson
Alexander Bryan Johnson 1786-1867, American philosopher and semanticist, b. Gosport, England. He emigrated (1801) to the United States and eventually became a wealthy banker in Utica, N.Y. Johnson anticipated many of the concerns of logical positivism and modern linguistic philosophy, but his views... Read more |
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Ignorance
349. Ignorance (See also Stupidity.) Am ha-Arez those negligent in or unobservant of Torah study. [Judaism: Wigoder, 26] avidya ignorance as cause of suffering through desire. [Hindu Phil.: Parrinder, 36] Deane, Lucy unaware of fiancé Stephen’s obvious relationship with... Read more |
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deconstruction
deconstruction in linguistics, philosophy, and literary theory, the exposure and undermining of the metaphysical assumptions involved in systematic attempts to ground knowledge, especially in academic disciplines such as structuralism and semiotics . The term "deconstruction" was coined by... Read more |
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Ahithophel
Ahithophel , in the Bible, David's counselor who joined with Absalom against David. He killed himself when Absalom ignored his counsel. He may have been the grandfather of Bath-sheba. The Vulgate form of the name is Achitophel.... Read more |
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Johann Caspar Zeuss
Johann Caspar Zeuss , 1806-56, German philologist. Zeuss's principal scholarly achievement was his establishment of the basis for the study of Celtic in his Grammatica celtica (1853, in Latin). Totally ignored by the academic world, he was still teaching in a high school when he died.... Read more |
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Putative
PUTATIVE Alleged; supposed; reputed. A putative father is the individual who is alleged to be the father of an illegitimate child. A putative marriage is one that has been contracted in good faith and pursuant to ignorance, by one or both parties, that certain impediments exist to render it null... Read more |
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Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary Psychology BIBLIOGRAPHY Evolutionary psychology proposes a set of evolved psychological mechanisms to account for much, if not all, human behavior. The research program is one among many in the social sciences that argues for the relevance of evolutionary biology in understanding... Read more |
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Livy
Livy (Titus Livius) , 59 BC-AD 17, Roman historian, b. Patavium (Padua), probably of noble family. He lived most of his life in Rome. The breadth of his education is apparent in his evident familiarity with the ancient Greek and Latin authors. His life work was the History of Rome from its... Read more |
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu , Inca site in Peru, about 50 mi (80 km) NW of Cuzco. It is perched high upon a rock in a narrow saddle between two sharp mountain peaks and overlooks the Urubamba River 2,000 ft (600 m) below. Ignored and later forgotten by Spanish colonial authorities because of its abandoned... Read more |
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Radiation Risks Long Concealed; Paducah Plant Memos Show Fear Of Public Outcry
...should be screened for exposure to "transuranics...such as plutonium and neptunium -- but he said plant...contractors running the plant ignored decades of warnings...allegations of workers' exposure, alleges "widespread...have come forward with ... |