High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to Indian and European philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments. The term dialectics is not synonymous with the term debate. Debaters are committed to their points of view and mean to win the debate by a combination of persuading the opponent; proving their argument correct; or proving the...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated to Latin as Systema cosmicum (English: cosmic system) in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger. The book, which was dedicated to Galileo`s patron, Ferdinando II de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and delivered to him on February 22, 1632, was a bestseller.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dinarchus or Dinarch (Corinth, c. 361 BC – c. 291 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flavius Dioscorus (Dioskoros) lived during the 6th century A.D. in the village of Aphrodito, Egypt, and therefore is called by modern scholars Dioscorus of Aphrodito. Although he was an Egyptian, he composed poetry in Greek, the cultural language of the Byzantine Era. His poems are the oldest surviving poems written by the hand of a known poet. The manuscripts, which contain his corrections and revisions, were discovered on papyrus in 1905, and are now held in museums and libraries around the world. Dioscorus was also occupied in legal work, and legal documents and drafts involving him, his family, Aphroditans, and others were discovered along with his poetry. As an administrator of the village...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Doctors` plot (Russian language: дело врачей , врачи-вредители or врачи-убийцы ) was the most dramatic anti-Jewish episode in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin`s regime, involving the "unmasking" of a group of prominent Moscow doctors, predominantly Jews, as conspiratorial assassins of Soviet leaders. This was accompanied by show trials and anti-Semitic propaganda in state-run mass media. Scores of Soviet Jews were promptly dismissed from their jobs, arrested, sent to the Gulag, or executed.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dodo bird verdict is a controversial phenomenon in psychology which states that all psychotherapies, regardless of their specific components, produce equivalent outcomes. The term originates from Lewis Carroll`s novel Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland, but the verdict originated from the work of Saul Rosenzweig in the 1930s. There are many controversies about this verdict because of the issues associated with testing the idea. The verdict is important, however, because of the many implications for psychology and the many different psychotherapies available for clients.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are offensive either about the denotatum (the object referred to by the linguistic expression) or to the audience, or both, and it is substituted for a neutral or euphemistic expression for just that reason. Like euphemism, dysphemism is sometimes motivated by feelings such as fear and distaste. However, it may also be motivated by hatred and contempt.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions (also known as Far Eastern religions or Taoic religions) form a subset of the Eastern religions. This group includes Confucianism, Shinto, Taoism, and elements of Mahayana Buddhism; as well as new religious movements such as Cao Dai, Chen Tao, Hoa Hao, Chondogyo, Jeung San Do, and I-Kuan Tao.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Catholic–Orthodox ecclesiastical differences are differences between the organizational structure and governance of the Eastern Orthodox Church and that of the Roman Catholic Church. These are distinguished from theological differences which are differences in dogma and doctrine. A number of disagreements over matters of Ecclesiology developed slowly between the Western and Eastern wings of the State church of the Roman Empire centred upon the cities of Rome (considered to have "fallen" in 476) and New Rome/Constantinople (c.330-1453) respectively. The disputes were a major factor in the formal East-West Schism between Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I in 1054 and are largely still...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eastern religions refers to religions originating in the Eastern world—India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia—and thus having dissimilarities with Western religions. This includes the East Asian and Indian religious traditions, as well as animistic indigenous religions.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Echinoderms (Phylum Echinodermata) are a phylum of marine animals. The adults are recognized easily by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include such well-known animals as starfish, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers. Echinoderms are found at every ocean depth, from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone. The phylum contains about 7000 living species, making it the second-largest grouping of deuterostomes (a superphylum), after the chordates (which include the vertebrates, such as humans, sharks and frogs). Echinoderms are also the largest phylum that has no freshwater or terrestrial (land-based) representatives.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edmund Hatch Bennett (April 6, 1824 – January 2, 1898) was an American lawyer, judge, the first Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts, and Dean of Boston University School of Law.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward Bouverie Pusey (22 August 1800 – 16 September 1882) was an English churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.