General philosophy

General philosophy

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Brahma

Philosophy; General philosophy

Brahma is the ultimate reality, and the only reality. It is all that exists and does not exist, all that is within Creation and beyond Creation. It is Infinite, indefinable and inconceivable. The ...

Bound

Philosophy; General philosophy

To limit the scope of a variable, usually by enclosing that scope in some variable binding construction which identifies the variable thus bound.

Captured agency

Philosophy; General philosophy

A government agency, especially a regulatory agency, that is largely under the influence of the economic interest group(s) most directly and massively affected by its decisions and policies — ...

(1837-1919) Philanthropist. In the course of his life he have away $350,000,000 generally for sound social objects such as public free libraries. Dr. Moncure Conway, who knew him says that he was an ...

Caroline, queen of England

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1683-1737) A German noble married to the Prince of Hanover who became King George II of England. She had studied philosophy and discarded Christianity under Leibnitz, and her house near London was ...

Cartesian doubt

Philosophy; General philosophy

In his meditations, descartes proposed discarding any kind of belief that could be doubted, that might be false. Initially, he was inclined to doubt all the evidences of his senses. The doubt that ...

Business cycle

Philosophy; General philosophy

More or less regular swings or wave-like fluctuations in the pace of a country's economic growth, well above and well below the long-term trend in the growth rate of total production; the ups and ...