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  2. Italian philosophy - Wikipedia

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    It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. The underlying philosophy can be viewed as stemming from Unfoldment Theory. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement, such as grades and tests.

  3. Implicate and explicate order - Wikipedia

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    Implicate order and explicate order are ontological concepts for quantum theory coined by theoretical physicist David Bohm during the early 1980s. They are used to describe two different frameworks for understanding the same phenomenon or aspect of reality. In particular, the concepts were developed in order to explain the bizarre behaviors of ...

  4. Naturalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe. [1] In its primary sense, [2] it is also known as ontological naturalism, metaphysical naturalism, pure naturalism, philosophical naturalism and antisupernaturalism. "Ontological" refers to ontology, the ...

  5. John Dewey - Wikipedia

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    Inquiry into Moscow show trials about Trotsky. Educational progressivism. Occupational psychosis. John Dewey ( / ˈduːi /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

  6. Conversation theory - Wikipedia

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    The form not the content of the theories (conversation theory and interactions of actors theory) return to and is congruent with the forms of physical theories; such as wave particle duality (the set theoretic unfoldment part of conversation theory is a radiation and its reception is the interpretation by the recipient of the descriptions so ...

  7. Wholeness and the Implicate Order - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0-203-99515-5. Wholeness and the Implicate Order is a book by theoretical physicist David Bohm. It was originally published in 1980 by Routledge, Great Britain. The book is considered a basic reference for Bohm's concepts of undivided wholeness and of implicate and explicate orders, as well as of Bohm's rheomode - an experimental language ...

  8. Natural kind - Wikipedia

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    Natural kind. " Natural kind " is an intellectual grouping, or categorizing of things, in a manner that is reflective of the actual world and not just human interests. [1] Some treat it as a classification identifying some structure of truth and reality that exists whether or not humans recognize it.

  9. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system (they can be modified, repealed, and restrained by human laws). The concept of positive law is related to the concept of legal rights. Natural law first appeared in ancient Greek philosophy, [2] and was referred to by Roman philosopher Cicero.