facts
What are facts? In themselves, even if correct and not distorted by personal or political bias, facts cannot only be meaningless, they can be untrue by their very selection, taking [...]
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Author: Rainer Funk
inner activity; activity, inner
For Aristotle (in his Ethica Nicomachea),“human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the [...]
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system
The nature of a system is that all its parts are integrated in such a way that the proper function of each part is necessary for the proper functioning of [...]
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symbol
A symbol is often defined as „something that stands for something else.” This definition seems rather disappointing. It becomes more interesting, however, if we concern ourselves with those symbols which [...]
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symbiosis; dependency, symbiotic
Symbiosis, in a psychological sense, means the union of one individual self with another self (or any other power outside of the own self) in such a way as to [...]
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