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  2. Agreeableness - Wikipedia

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    A study done by Caspi, Elder, and Bem (1987) found that explosive and ill-tempered children had higher rates of divorce as adults when compared with their even-tempered peers. Further, ill-tempered men had lower educational attainment, occupational status, and work stability, and ill-tempered women married men with similar low achievement ...

  3. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is a living system which includes animals, plants, and Eco-systems. In contrast, an art object has no regeneration, evolutionary history, or metabolism. [ 6 ] An individual may be in the forest and perceive it as beautiful because of the plethora of colors such as red, green, and yellow.

  4. Bach Temperament - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known source for the tuning is the publication in 1753 of Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.This work describes how to tune the fifths slightly different from purity, accompanied by an aural control of major and minor thirds, as well as full chords, so that all twenty-four keys sound clean and crisp, even to the highly trained ear.

  5. Buddha-nature - Wikipedia

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    This true nature was just impermanence, becoming and 'vast emptiness'. Because he saw the whole universe as an expression of buddha-nature, he held that even grass and trees are buddha-nature. According to Dōgen: Therefore, the very impermanency of grass and tree, thicket and forest is the Buddha nature.

  6. Four temperaments - Wikipedia

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    18th-century depiction of the four temperaments: [1] phlegmatic and choleric above, sanguine and melancholic below The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

  7. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    The first column gives the fraction of the systonic comma by which the perfect fifths are tempered in the meantone system. The second lists 5-limit rational intervals that occur within this tuning. The third gives the fraction of an octave, within the corresponding equitempered microinterval system, that best approximates the meantone fifth.

  8. Nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is an inherent character or constitution, [1] particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life.

  9. Environmental philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Resacralization of nature is a term used in environmental philosophy to describe the process of restoring the sacred quality of nature. The primary assumption is that nature has a sanctified aspect that has become lost in modern times as a result of the secularization of contemporary worldviews .