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  2. Nara Document on Authenticity - Wikipedia

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    The Nara Document on Authenticity is a document that addresses the need for a broader understanding of cultural diversity and cultural heritage in relation to conservation in order to evaluate the value and authenticity of cultural property more objectively. [1]

  3. Historicity - Wikipedia

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    Historicity is the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history instead of being a historical myth, legend, or fiction.The historicity of a claim about the past is its factual status. [1]

  4. Historic recurrence - Wikipedia

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    Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history. [a] [b] The concept of historic recurrence has variously been applied to overall human history (e.g., to the rises and falls of empires), to repetitive patterns in the history of a given polity, and to any two specific events which bear a striking similarity. [4]

  5. Authenticity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Authenticity is a concept of personality in the fields of psychology, existential psychotherapy, existentialist philosophy, and aesthetics. In existentialism, authenticity is the degree to which a person's actions are congruent with their values and desires, despite external pressures to

  6. Historicity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Historicity in philosophy is the idea or fact that something has a historical origin and developed through history: concepts, practices, values. This is opposed to the belief that the same thing, in particular normative institutions or correlated ideologies, is natural or essential and thus exists universally.

  7. Authenticity - Wikipedia

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    Authenticity (philosophy), a particular way of dealing with the external world, being faithful to internal rather than external ideas; Authentication (law), evidence proven to be genuine; SS Authenticity, a coastal tanker; Authenticity Party, an Egyptian political party; Authentic (show jumping horse), an Olympic show jumper ridden by Beezie Madden

  8. Sincerity and Authenticity - Wikipedia

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    The lectures examine what Trilling described as "the moral life in process of revising itself", a period of Western history in which, argues Trilling, sincerity became the central aspect of moral life (first observed in pre–Age of Enlightenment literature such as the works of Shakespeare), later to be replaced by authenticity (in the ...

  9. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    A plot of the frequency of each word as a function of its frequency rank for two English language texts: Culpeper's Complete Herbal (1652) and H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) in a log-log scale. The dotted line is the ideal law .