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  2. Historical method - Wikipedia

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    Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  3. Cantor's diagonal argument - Wikipedia

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    Georg Cantor published this proof in 1891, [1] [2]: 20– [3] but it was not his first proof of the uncountability of the real numbers, which appeared in 1874. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, it demonstrates a general technique that has since been used in a wide range of proofs, [ 6 ] including the first of Gödel's incompleteness theorems [ 2 ] and ...

  4. Bow-wow theory - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] According to bow-wow theories, the first human languages developed from onomatopoeia , that is, imitations of natural sounds. [ 3 ] The term "bow-wow theory" was introduced in English-language literature by the German philologist Max Müller , who was critical of this idea. [ 4 ]

  5. Proof of concept - Wikipedia

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    Proof of concept (POC or PoC), also known as proof of principle, is a realization of a certain idea, method or principle in order to demonstrate its feasibility, [1] or viability, [2] or a demonstration in principle with the aim of verifying that some concept or theory has practical potential. A proof of concept is usually small and may or may ...

  6. Presuppositional apologetics - Wikipedia

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    This type of argument is technically called a reductio ad absurdum in that it attempts to reduce the opposition to holding an absurd, i.e., self-contradictory position; in this case, both believing in facts of Christian revelation (in practice) and denying them (in word). So, in essence, evidential apologetics attempts to build upon a shared ...

  7. Proof of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, a proof of knowledge is an interactive proof in which the prover succeeds in 'convincing' a verifier that the prover knows something. What it means for a machine to 'know something' is defined in terms of computation. A machine 'knows something', if this something can be computed, given the machine as an input.

  8. Germ theory's key 19th century figures - Wikipedia

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    1.The microorganism must be present in every case of the disease. 2. The microorganism must be isolated from the diseased host and grown as a pure culture in the laboratory 3. The microorganism must cause the same disease when introduced into a new host. 4. The microorganism should be recovered from the new host.

  9. List of incomplete proofs - Wikipedia

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    The first complete proof was given by Hilbert in 1896. In 1879, Alfred Kempe published a purported proof of the four color theorem, whose validity as a proof was accepted for eleven years before it was refuted by Percy Heawood. Peter Guthrie Tait gave another incorrect proof in 1880 which was shown to be incorrect by Julius Petersen in 1891.