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  2. Abstract (summary) - Wikipedia

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    Abstract is often expected to tell a complete story of the paper, as for most readers, abstract is the only part of the paper that will be read. It should allow the reader to give an elevator pitch of the full paper. [19] An academic abstract typically outlines four elements relevant to the completed work:

  3. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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    Outlines can be presented as a work's table of contents, but they can also be used as the body of a work. The Outline of Knowledge from the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is an example of this. Wikipedia includes outlines that summarize subjects (for example, see Outline of chess, Outline of Mars, and Outline of knowledge).

  4. Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human ...

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    Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) was partly written as a response to Condorcet's Sketch, as is evidenced by the first edition's full title: "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society with remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers".

  5. Category:Outlines of history and events - Wikipedia

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    Each entry below is an outline, an introduction to a subject structured as a hierarchical list of the essential points. Each of these outlines focuses on a history and historical events. Along with Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines, the outlines on Wikipedia form an

  6. The Outline of History - Wikipedia

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    The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells chronicling the history of the world from the origin of the Earth to the First World War. It appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published ...

  7. Outline of history - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to history: History – discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented (the beginning of recorded history ).

  8. Abstraction - Wikipedia

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    For example, it is difficult to agree to whether concepts like God, the number three, and goodness are real, abstract, or both. An approach to resolving such difficulty is to use predicates as a general term for whether things are variously real, abstract, concrete, or of a particular property (e.g., good ).

  9. Outline of the history of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    A Military History of the Western World. Three Volumes. By J.F.C. Fuller. New York: Da Capo Press, 1987 and 1988. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – the original was published between 1776 and 1789 in six volumes by the firm of Strahan & Cadell, in the Strand, London. [152]