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Cosmological principle
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Precautionary principle
Precautionary Principle The precautionary principle, also referred to as the precautionary approach, justifies the use of cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation even in the absence of full scientific certainty. This principle has obvious applications to various forms of... Read more |
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Anthropic Principle
Anthropic Principle The Anthropic Principle asserts that the existence of human life places certain necessary constraints on cosmological and metaphysical theories. It is an ex post facto methodological tool that attempts to relate the structure of the universe to the underlying conditions that... Read more |
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competitive exclusion principle
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least-work principle
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer 1820-1903, English philosopher, b. Derby. In 1848 he moved to London, where he was an editor at The Economist and wrote his first major book, Social Statics (1851), which tried to establish a natural basis for political action. Subsequently, together with Charles Darwin and... Read more |
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Jural
JURAL The principles of natural and positive rights recognized by law. Jural pertains to the rights and obligations sanctioned and governed by positive law or that law which is enacted by proper authority. Jural doctrines are founded upon fundamental rules and protect essential rights and... Read more |
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naturalism
naturalism in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez , J. F. Millet , and Monet , have followed naturalistic principles.... Read more |
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I Ching
I Ching (Yi King or Y-Kim) The ancient Chinese Book of Changes, attributed to the emperor Fo-Hi in 3468 B.C.E. It expounds a classical Chinese philosophy based on the dual cosmic principles of yin and yang and claims to elucidate the outcome of any given situation by a technique involving... Read more |
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