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In his book Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Goodman introduced the "new riddle of induction", so-called by analogy with Hume's classical problem of induction.He accepted Hume's observation that inductive reasoning (i.e. inferring from past experience about events in the future) was based solely on human habit and regularities to which our day-to-day existence has accustomed us.
St Trinnean's Academy for Young Ladies was one of the real-life inspirations for the fictional girls' school of St Trinian's The squalid Dotheboys Hall in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby was inspired by a real school in Bowes. [1] This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media.
These ideas were imported to the English-speaking world largely through the efforts of Thomas Carlyle, whose Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825), Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Sartor Resartus (1833–1834) introduced and advocated aestheticism while also, if not marking the earliest use of the word "aesthetic" in the English language ...
Many books and other works of fiction are set in, or refer to, fictional universities. [1] [2] These have been said to "feature abundantly, persistently, and increasingly in popular culture texts" [3] and in an "array of media including novels, television, film, comic books, and video games". [4]
In 1898, shortly after the beginning of the Vienna Secession, Father Desiderius Lenz had his book published – Zur Aesthetic der Beuroner Schule ('On the Aesthetics of the Beuron School'). It is assumed that Klimt read Lenz's work with enthusiasm, and images of Beuron Abbey, for instance, may show sections of the decorated ceiling which appear ...
This category is for novels in which a school is the main setting or the focus of events.. For novels set in an elementary or primary school (middle school), a high school or secondary school (middle school), a boarding school, or a university or college, see Category:Novels set in elementary and primary schools, Category:Novels set in high schools and secondary schools, Category:Novels set in ...
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Light academia is an aesthetic and subculture, [1] that emphasizes visually light aesthetics and positive themes, including optimism, joy, and friendship. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Accordingly, light academia is often considered to be the visually and emotionally lighter counterpart to dark academia .