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  2. Stasis (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    A stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time does not pass. Concept. The stasis field concept is a variation on the related ...

  3. Stasis - Wikipedia

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    Stasis (from Greek στάσις "a standing still") may refer to: A state in stability theory , in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other Stasis (political history) , a period of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state

  4. Stasis (ancient Greece) - Wikipedia

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    In political history, stasis (Ancient Greek: στάσις in the sense of "faction, discord"; plural: staseis) refers to an episode of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state or polis. It was the result of opposition between groups of citizens, fighting over the constitution of the city or over social and economic problems. [ 1 ]

  5. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fifty years later, during the events of Sonic Adventure 2, he is liberated from his stasis capsule by Doctor Eggman. In Helldivers 2, the playable character(s) that are summoned in-game use a form of suspended animation to travel between star systems, even though it is shown that most vessels in that game are capable of faster than light travel.

  6. Kenneth Burke - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. [1]

  7. Unity of opposites - Wikipedia

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    Dialecticians claim that unity or identity of opposites can exist in reality or in thought. If the opposites were completely balanced, the result would be stasis, but often one of the pairs of opposites is larger, stronger or more powerful than the other, such that over time, one of the opposed conditions prevails over the other. When this ...

  8. Ecstasy (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Ecstasy (from the Ancient Greek ἔκστασις ekstasis, "to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere" from ek-"out," and stasis "a stand, or a standoff of forces") is a term used in existential philosophy to mean "outside-itself".

  9. Living fossil - Wikipedia

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    Living fossils exhibit stasis (also called "bradytely") over geologically long time scales. Popular literature may wrongly claim that a "living fossil" has undergone no significant evolution since fossil times, with practically no molecular evolution or morphological changes. Scientific investigations have repeatedly discredited such claims.