Search results for "The Skeptics Society" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... and tranquility; Anniceris stressed the altruistic pleasures of friendship ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- Elis, was credited in antiquity as being the first skeptic philosopher ... Pyrrhonism often stands for extreme skepticism--the position that ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- sense," is defined in parapsychology as the ability to acquire information ... As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- quot; or "mind over matter," is the ability to influence the movement ... The popularity of those claiming psychokinetic abilities, and the ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability of our mind to reach ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- The yeti is an alleged ape-like animal said to inhabit the Himalayan ... Nevertheless, the yeti remains one of the most famous creatures of ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- research. Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology ... Rhine was trained in the scientific method and applied this to what ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Eclecticism (from Greek eklektikos, “selective,” or “choosing ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- Theoretical interest in morality arises from the distinct sorts of questions ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic ... When skepticism emerged in Plato's academy around the third to ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- theologian, apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons ... probability that it was. He responded to skeptics, who criticized apparent ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ... also a utopian anarchist, arguing that a society of rational men and women ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- that constituted satirical criticism of the Communist regime in Russia ... 1902 until 1908, during which time he joined the Bolsheviks. He was arrested ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- Telepathy (from the Greek tele (distant) and patheia (feeling)) is ... Latent Telepathy is telepathy in which a time lag is observed between ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Catholic theologian who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth ... Charron’s theories were notably well-received during the seventeenth ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- was a Jewish philosopher and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon ... Samuel ibn Tibbon was the first to translate Aristotle and Averroes ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- |Origin= The term was invented by researcher Colin Andrews in the ... |Definition= A Geometric or abstract pattern formed by the flattening ...27 KB (4,030 words) - 06:27, 11 January 2024