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  2. Esse quam videri - Wikipedia

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    Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt ("Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so"). Just a few years after Cicero, Sallust used the phrase in his Bellum Catilinae (54.6), writing that Cato the Younger esse quam videri bonus malebat ("He preferred to be good rather than to seem so").

  3. To be, or not to be - Wikipedia

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    "To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech is named for the opening phrase, itself among the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature and music.

  4. Comparative illusion - Wikipedia

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    Christensen found that plural subjects (kvinder, "women") in the than-clause led to significantly higher acceptability ratings than singular subjects (frisøren "the hairdresser"). [ 35 ] De Dios-Flores examined if there was an effect depending on whether or not the than -clause subject could be a subset of the matrix subject as in (a) compared ...

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    "Sex is so much more than penetration," Howard says. "Sex is any type of emotional, spiritual, physical, or erotic connection, and that includes mutual masturbation."

  6. Pascal's wager - Wikipedia

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    Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the ...

  7. List of valid argument forms - Wikipedia

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    It is, however, slightly more complicated than the first two. In short, it states that if one thing happens, another will as well. If that second thing happens, a third will follow it. Therefore, if the first thing happens, it is inevitable that the third will too. [3] It is shown below in logical form. If A, then B If B, then C Therefore if A ...

  8. To Have or to Be? - Wikipedia

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    So, the economic system of society served people in such a way in which only their personal interests were intended to impart. The people having unlimited needs and desires like the Roman emperors, the English and French noblemen were the people who got the most out of it. Society nowadays has completely deviated from its actual path.

  9. Ontological argument - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a being than which nothing greater could be conceived, which Anselm defined as God, must exist in reality. [22] Anselm's argument in Chapter 2 can be summarized as follows: [23] It is a conceptual truth (or, so to speak, true by definition) that God is a being than which none greater can be imagined. God exists as an idea in the mind.