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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. 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 deduction - Wikipedia

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    In logic and proof theory, natural deduction is a kind of proof calculus in which logical reasoning is expressed by inference rules closely related to the "natural" way of reasoning. [1] This contrasts with Hilbert-style systems, which instead use axioms as much as possible to express the logical laws of deductive reasoning .