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  • 101fallacy — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Arianism, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, aberrancy, aberration,… …

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  • 102illusion — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, air, airy nothing, apparition, appearance, bamboozlement, bedevilment, befooling, bewitchery, bewitchment, bluffing, brainchild, bubble, calculated deception, captivation, chimera, circumvention …

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  • 103delusion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deception; illusion, fantasy, misconception, hallucination. See error. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An illusion] Syn. phantasm, hallucination, fancy; see illusion 1 . 2. [A false belief] Syn. misconception …

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  • 104de·cep·tion — /dıˈsɛpʃən/ noun, pl tions 1 [noncount] : the act of making someone believe something that is not true : the act of deceiving someone She accuses the company of willful deception in its advertising. The article describes the government s use of… …

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  • 105Adrian Piper — Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (* 20. September 1948 in New York City) ist eine US amerikanische Konzeptkünstlerin der ersten Generation und eine analytische Philosophin. Sie lebte vor ihrer Auswanderung aus den USA viele Jahre in Cape Cod,… …

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  • 106Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 107British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price — David McNaughton In this chapter I discuss the moral theories of three influential writers: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713); Joseph Butler (1692–1752) and Richard Price (1723–91). All three wrote extensively on issues …

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  • 108N ray — This article is about the hypothetical form of radiation described in 1903. For the genuine nuclear decay product, see neutron radiation. Fig. 6,7 from Prosper René Blondlot: Registration by Photography of the Action Produced by N Rays on a Small …

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  • 109bubble — Synonyms and related words: air, air pocket, airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, ball, balloon, be enthusiastic, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blubber, boil, boil over, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brainchild, bubble… …

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  • 110castle in the air — Synonyms and related words: Xanadu, airy nothing, autism, bubble, castle in Spain, chimera, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, false belief, ignis fatuus, illusion, misbelief,… …

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