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36 Cards in this Set
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maleficia
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any malicious acts which were attributed to witches
medieval witchhunt craze |
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obsessional neurosis
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freud
a condition in which the patinet mind is intruded upon by images ideas or words |
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philosophes
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18th century intellectuals
everything could be known creation of the encylcopedia republic of letters |
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rousseau
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enlightenment phil
nature as source innate wisdom emile |
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schlegel
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leader of german romanticism authour of athenaeum--> romanitic manifesto
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william wordsworth
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english romantic poet
launch romantic age in english lit climbing snowden |
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automata
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self operating machines
example pianist woman |
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frhenanklin commission
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run by ben franklin to investigate the validity of oliver lodge's claims about ether, telepathy etc
claims deemed to be fake and impossible shut down the scientific inquiry into the nature of spiritualism |
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carl jung
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student of freud
belief in the councious and two parts of unconcious--> the personal and impersonal primitve archetypes |
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nkisi
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bird that participated in the recent experiment done by sheldrake
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institute for creative research
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henry morris
attacked core concepts of darwinism scientific and geological argument in support of creationism term "intelligent design" |
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dawkins
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wrote the god delusion
reaction to the fact that science began to feel under attack form religion many offensive remarks on religino |
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guillotine
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used during the reign of terror
replaced humans with machines for killing, mimicking the enlightenment view of mechanisism |
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free mason
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1717 london
radical whig republicans take their critique underground to a secret society drew on many knowledge traditions philophers as being the new mediatros between man and the natural order seen nowadays as mystical |
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william crookes
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scientist who discovers thallium
invted by elites to participate in an investigatino of spiritualism proof that real scientifst were investing time into the research of spiritualism katie king ghost |
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david hume
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scottish enlightenment phil representative of the materialism in the french rev
no thinker of a thought , only a reflector no soul |
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maupertuis
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predicted the earth to be egg shaped
went on an expedition to peru to confirm newtonian theory that earth was an oblate sphere proposed the principle of least action as a metaphusical principle that underlies all the laws of machanics |
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barberini
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involved in gallileos shitq
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ether
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used in 19th century to explain everything and tie particles together including bonds between atoms
light is a wave in ether it is everywhere and eerything |
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de la mettrie
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french physician and phil who came up wiht the theory of metaphysical
beileve in materialistic character humans have no soul let us take our plearure while we can |
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la homme machine
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title means, man is machine
written by de la mettrie claimed men are machines and that the end of life is fhound in the pleausres of the senses |
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the glorious revolution
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overthrough of kindjames II of england
led by william of orange began an english parliamentary democracy monarch no longer has absolute power |
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charles lyell
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scottish geologist
denied catastrophic genesis flood won debate in 1830s about the earth's geological formation |
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clarence darrow
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defense attorney for scopes trial
forced by william jennings bryan to defend relgion |
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karl popper
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claimed science does not equal truthfulness
there are things beyond our ability to prove theory supported by evidence doesnt make it scienfific |
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charles darwin
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traveled on hms beagle
origin of species and natural selection |
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cuvier
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claimed earth's history is catastrophic
broken into different geological ages hyena bones earth is successive and not developmental |
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karl von reichenbach
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chemist
radiation emitted by hujman body ode energy each person has own aura |
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dd home
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levitation
pet magician of elites accordian playing |
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preconcious
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uncounsiuos thought not repressed
freud |
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time dilation
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time passes ore slowly at faster rates of speed
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quanta
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disc by planck
engery of atoms |
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planck
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discovered quanta
frq of light related to energy lost |
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bohr
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absorbion/emission spectrum
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probability wave
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de broglie,
freq of light rel to nrg lost |
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non locality
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einstein
partilce a and b relativity no physical connection yet they resp to e/o |
