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  2. Via et veritas et vita - Wikipedia

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    Via et veritas et vita (Classical Latin: [ˈwɪ.a ɛt ˈweːrɪtaːs ɛt ˈwiːta], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvi.a et ˈveritas et ˈvita]) is a Latin phrase meaning "the way and the truth and the life". The words are taken from Vulgate version of John 14 , and were spoken by Jesus in reference to himself.

  3. Constructivism (philosophy of science) - Wikipedia

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    Constructivism opposes the philosophy of objectivism, embracing the belief that human beings can come to know the truth about the natural world not mediated by scientific approximations with different degrees of validity and accuracy.

  4. Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth - Wikipedia

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    Concurrence of possibly reliable sources may help in identifying reliable sources, and editors should seek it. Conflict between truth as a criterion and reliable sourcing as a criterion may nevertheless be a matter of opinion. Reliable sourcing and truth ought to coincide, at least to some degree; such is to be sought by Wikipedia editors.

  5. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  6. Human condition - Wikipedia

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    The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death. This is a very broad topic that has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those of art , biology , literature , philosophy ...

  7. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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    truth [is] my light: A common, non-literal translation is "truth enlightens me"; motto of Seoul National University, South Korea veritas numquam perit: truth never expires: by Seneca the Younger: veritas odit moras: truth hates delay: by Seneca the Younger: veritas odium parit: truth breeds hatred veritas omnia vincit: truth conquers all

  8. Aletheia - Wikipedia

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    A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world.Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world.

  9. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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    The tree of cousinship (the tree of life, homology and analogy) History written all over us (vestigiality and unintelligent design) Arms races and 'evolutionary theodicy' (coevolution and evolutionary arms races) There is grandeur in this view of life (based on the final passage of On the Origin of Species)