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  2. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphism and anthropomorphization derive from the verb form anthropomorphize, [a] itself derived from the Greek ánthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος, lit. "human") and morphē (μορφή, "form"). It is first attested in 1753, originally in reference to the heresy of applying a human form to the Christian God. [b] [1]

  3. Possible world - Wikipedia

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    Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy , with modal realists such as David Lewis arguing that they are literally existing alternate realities, and others ...

  4. Orgone - Wikipedia

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    Orgone (/ ˈ ɔːr ɡ oʊ n / OR-gohn) [1] is a pseudoscientific [2] concept variously described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force.Originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich, [3] [4] [5] and developed by Reich's student Charles Kelley after Reich's death in 1957, orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of ...

  5. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the sentence "some electrons are bonded to protons" is true then it can be used to justify that electrons and protons exist. [112] Quine used this insight to argue that one can learn about metaphysics by closely analyzing [l] scientific claims to understand what kind of metaphysical picture of the world they presuppose. [114]

  6. Theory of forms - Wikipedia

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    A Form is an objective "blueprint" of perfection. [19] The Forms are perfect and unchanging representations of objects and qualities. For example, the Form of beauty or the Form of a triangle. For the form of a triangle say there is a triangle drawn on a blackboard. A triangle is a polygon with 3 sides.

  7. Outline of metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to metaphysics: . Metaphysics – traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it, [1] although the term is not easily defined. [2]

  8. Tulpa - Wikipedia

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    The term 'thoughtform' is also used in Evans-Wentz's 1927 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. [11] The concept is also used in the Western practice of magic. [12] [page needed] The Slender Man has been described by some people as a tulpa-effect, and attributed to multiple people's thought processes. [13]

  9. Metaphysics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Many of Aristotle's works are extremely compressed, and many scholars believe that in their current form, they are likely lecture notes. [2] Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century BC, a number of his treatises were referred to as the writings "after ("meta") the Physics" [b], the origin of the current title for the collection Metaphysics.