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Historical and Philosophical Context
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/26/2009

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Greek atomist who viewed atoms and molecules as the basic building blocks of the universe.
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Democritus
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Argued the notion of Bicameral Reality
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Plato
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Tried to integrate the 'world of ideas' with the sensory world
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Aristotle
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the orbit of mars undermined
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geocentric theory
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he was the first man given credit for undermining geocentric theory
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copernicus
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argued that scientific advancement is a double bladed sword and that it can create a sense of alienation and rootlessness for many individuals
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Nash
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wrote the dialogues on the Two Chief systems of the world
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Galileo
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argued the question that the question of the 1960's undermined the belief that a single religious world view could explain the universe.
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Nash
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Advocated that the universe runs like a clock (mechanistic analogy)
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Descartes
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argued that our post modern culture has become the "mother of all negation"
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Goetez
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The growth of the discipline of Physics can be tied to..
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geometry and philosophy
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The "Law of similarity" and "law of contagion" are examples of..
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sympathetic magic
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he states that the post modern age begins during the 1960's
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Nash
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He was noted for his research on the 'bible code'
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Rips
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he states "if one finds the position of a subatomic particle one cannot find the velocity and visa versa"
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Werner Heisenberg
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"Spooky action at a distance"
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Einstien
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this idea holds that the laws of nature are the same for all observers even if they are accelerated with respect to eachother
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The General Theory of Relativity
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he argues that Jupiter would be a radio transmitter before the advent of radio astronomy
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Immanuel Velikovsky
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he built a bridge between Moses and Plato
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Philo
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He took humanity off the wheel and put them on the line, also wrote the book The City of Gods
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St. Agustine
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Applied allegory to the book of Moses and this enrichment made scripture infinitely adaptable to the needs of subsequent generations
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Philo
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This individual developed a theory that he would initially call the "Theory of Invariants" and argued that the laws of physics stayed the same in all frames of reference. Thus, no matter where you are in the universe, the laws governing the physical world are the same
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Albert Einstein
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the belief that things have been relatively uniform since the time of the "Big Bang"
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Uniformitarianism
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He explored the lines of force of magnetism.
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Faraday
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The Theory of electromagetism that was built on probability theory as articulated by
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Maxwell
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World of Collision was authored by
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Velikovsky
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Sympathetic Magic was discussed under the...
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Theological Stage and Animatism
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the "great philosophical breakthrough" was linked to the..
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ride of the great world religions
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The church adapted the notions of his and used them as the foundations for the church dogma
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Artistotle
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He provided logical proof of the existence of god
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Descartes
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He was noted for the Uncertainty Principle
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Werner Heisenberg
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Einsteins's theory of relativity does not contradict..
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Newtonian Mechanics
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He predicted that the earth must have a magnetosphere
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Velikovsky
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The use of allegory is identified with
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Philo
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this means to say something more then would seem to be evident on the surface
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allegory
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Golden Bough
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Sir James Frasier
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Socrates' student
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Plato
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Puzzle of Mars' orbit
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Copernicus
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Plato's student
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aristotle
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the belief that spirit beings animate nature
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animism
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The Kayans of Borneo were discussed as examples of
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animism
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The "great Philosophical Breakthrough" occurred during
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monotheism
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the philosopher known as the greek taoist and who suggested that reality is like a flowing river
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Heraclitus
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A great christian thinker who sought to integrate Aristotle's formulations with the church dogma to create a Christian synthesis
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st. thomas aquinas
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this undermined 19th century notions that science is built on observation
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the uncertainty principle
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he suggests that Christianity is polytheism in denial
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Bustilloz
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he suggested that animism evolved into polytheism and polytheism eventually became monotheism
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Sir Edward Tylor
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Geocentric Theory was first presented by
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Ptolemy
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To argue that all is structure or order and that change is only an illusion is to reflect the notions of
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Parmenides
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This theorist was burned at the stake
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Bruno
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