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  • 1cavil — n. 1. Frivolous objection, captious criticism, unwarranted censure, carping, censoriousness, wilful censure, objection for objection s sake. 2. Specious objection, specious controversion, specious disputation, sophistry, special pleading …

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  • 2Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …

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  • 3Hume: moral and political philosophy — Rosalind Hursthouse INTRODUCTION Hume’s moral and political philosophy, like his epistemology and meta physics, originally appeared in A Treatise of Human Nature, (henceforth [7.1]), Book III of which, ‘Of Morals’, was published in 1740. He… …

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  • 4Theaker Wilder — (c.1717 ndash; c.1778) was the first Regius Professor of Greek and Senior Register at Trinity College, Dublinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius Professor of Greek %28Trinity%29] and became famous for being Oliver Goldsmith s tutorThe Cambridge… …

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  • 5Essex in Ireland — refers to the military campaign pursued in Ireland in 1599 by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, during the Nine Years War and the Anglo Spanish War. Earlier in that year Queen Elizabeth I of England had been troubled over the choice of a… …

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  • 6Slingsby Bethel — (1617 1697) was a Member of Parliament with republican sympathies, during the period of the English Civil War.cite web | last =Courtney | first =W. P. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Bethel, Slingsby (1617–1697), republican | work =… …

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  • 7Killing Joke — Cet article concerne le groupe de musique. Pour l album homonyme sorti en 1980, voir Killing Joke (album). Pour celui de 2003, voir Killing Joke (album, 2003). Killing Joke …

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  • 8Roscoe Arbuckle — Données clés Nom de naissance Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle Su …

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  • 9Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …

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