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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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    According to Steven Schafersman, naturalism is a philosophy that maintains that; "Nature encompasses all that exists throughout space and time; Nature (the universe or cosmos) consists only of natural elements, that is, of spatio-temporal physical substance – mass – energy. Non-physical or quasi-physical substance, such as information ...

  5. Natural philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science . From the ancient world (at least since Aristotle) until the 19th century, natural philosophy was the common term for the study ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Natural law - Wikipedia

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    Natural law. Natural law [1] ( Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by the proponents of this concept to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or ...

  9. Transcendentals - Wikipedia

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    The transcendentals ( Latin: transcendentalia, from transcendere "to exceed") are "properties of being ", nowadays commonly considered to be truth, unity (oneness), beauty, and goodness. [citation needed] The conceptual idea arose from medieval scholasticism, namely Aquinas but originated with Plato, Augustine, and Aristotle in the West.