In music, the conclusion may take the form of a coda or outro. Often, there are "altogether unexpected digressions just as a work is drawing to its close, followed by a return...to a consequently more emphatic confirmation of the structural relations implied in the body of the work." (Perle 1990) Conclusion - Examples. The slow movement of Bach's Brandeberg Concerto No. 2, where a "diminished-7th chord progression interrupts the final cadence. The slow movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, ...

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A concept is an abstract, universal idea, notion, or entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events, or relations. Concepts are abstract in that they omit the differences of the things in their extension, treating them as if they were identical. They are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension. Concepts are also the basic elements of propositions, much the same way a wor ...

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Viggo Peter Mortensen (born October 20, 1958 in New York City) is an American theater and movie actor, a published poet, musician, photographer and painter. His Danish father and half Norwegian American mother met in Norway. He has a son, Henry Blake, with his ex-wife Christine "Exene" Cervenka of the band X. He is best known for his role as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He was a last-minute replacement for the role, and wouldn't have taken the part if it hadn't been for his son's enthusi ...

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Western philosophy is a line of related philosophical thinking, beginning in Ancient Greece, and including the predominant philosophical thinking of Europe and its former colonies, and continues to this day. The concept of philosophy itself originated in the West, derived from the ancient Greek word philosophia (φιλοσοφια); literally, "the love of wisdom" (philein = "to love" + sophia = wisdom, in the sense of theoretical or cosmic insight). However, many non-Western religions have adopted the term philosophy in reference to cosmic intellectual discourse ...

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This article is about the philosophical term . For the construction material, see Concrete. For the comic book, see Concrete (comics). In philosophy, a concept is considered concrete if it is not abstract: it must be both particular and an individual, and hence occupy both space and time. To say that a physical object is concrete is to say, approximately, that it is a particular individual t ...

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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. It is a simplified subset of SGML. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, Geography Markup Language (GML), RDF/XML, RSS, MathML, Physical Markup Language (PML), XHTML, SVG, MusicXML and cXML) are defined in a forma ...

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XML - History XML - Features of XML XML - Strengths and weaknesses XML - Quick syntax tour XML - Correctness in an XML document
XML - Well-formed documents XML - Valid documents XML - International and worldwide use
XML - Displaying XML on the web XML - XML extensions XML - Processing XML files XML - Versions of XML XML - Patent status XML - Quotes about XML

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Philosophers sometimes distinguish classes from types and kinds. We can talk about the class of human beings, just as we can talk about the type (or natural kind), human being, or humanity. How, then, might classes differ from types? One might well think they are not actually different categories of being, but typically, while both are treated as abstract objects, classes are not usually treated as universals, whereas types usually are. Whether natural kinds ough ...

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In, object-oriented programming, a class consists of a description of a collection of encapsulated instance variables and methods, possibly with implementation of those types together with a constructor function that can be used to create objects of the class. A class is a cohesive package that consists of a particular kind of compile-time metadata. A Class describes the rules by which objects behave; these objects are referred to as "instances" of that class. A class specifies the structure of data which each instance contains as wel ...

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Class computer science - Abstract and concrete classes Class computer science - Metaclasses
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Class computer science - Run-time representation of classes
Class computer science - Classes without inheritance Class computer science - Instantiation Class computer science - Examples
Class computer science - C++ Class computer science - Java

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The Chavín were an early civilization that existed in what is now the country of Peru. This Early Horizon civilization is believed to have developed around 900 BCE and died out around 200 BCE. The Chavíns laid the cultural foundation for the other Peruvian civilizations to come. Archaeological artifacts from the Chavín period include textiles, metalwork, pottery and religious items. The most well-known archaeological ruin of the Chavín era is Chavin de Huantar, located in the Andean highlands north of Lima. It is believed t ...

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In metaphysics (in particular, ontology), the different kinds or ways of being are called categories of being or simply categories. According to the Aristotelian tradition, a being is anything that can be said to be in the various senses of this word. Hence, to investigate the categories of being is to determine the most fundamental senses in which things can be said to be. A category, more precisely, is any of the broadest classes of things - 'thing' here meaning anything whatever that ca ...

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Curiosity is any natural inquisitive behaviour, evident by observation in many animal species, and is the emotional aspect of living beings that engenders exploration, investigation and learning. In essence, "curiosity" is a term that describes an unknown number of behavioural and psychological mechanisms, which have the effect of impelling beings to seek information and interaction with their envi ...

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Universals (used as a noun) are either properties, relations, or types. However, classes are not usually considered to be universals; however, some prominent philosophers, such as John Bigelow, do think that classes are universals. It is worth noting that all four items are generally considered abstract, nonphysical entities. They are at least so considered by Platonic realists; there are others who use the terminology of properties, relations, etc., but who do not wish to be realists. Part of the difficulty, inde ...

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Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as, person,situation and message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding - Examples. A person understands the weather if he/she is able to predict and to give an explanation of some of its features. A psychiatrist understands another person if he knows his anxieties and their causes and can give him useful advice on how to minimise the anxi ...

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Dance notation is the symbolic representation of dance movement, it is analogous to Movement notation but can be limited to representing human movement and specific forms of dance such as Tap dance. Various methods have been to used to visually represent dance movements including: abstract symbols figurative representation track or path mapping Numerical systems music notation Graph ...

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Schopenhauer appended a criticism to the first volume of his The World as Will and Representation. He wanted to show Kant's errors so that Kant's merits would be appreciated and his achievements would be furthered. The Neo-Kantianism movement received a strong impetus from this essay. Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Merits. According to Schopenhauer's essay, Kant's three main merits are as follows: The distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself. Including:

Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Merits Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Faults
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A value system is in essence the ordering and prioritization of the ethical and ideological values that an individual or society holds. While two individuals or groups may share a set of common values, they may differ in their determination of which values in that set have precedence over others. The two individuals or groups are said to have different value systems, even though they may have many values in common, if their prioritization of values differs, or if there are different exceptions they attach to these values ...

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Value system - Personal vs. Communal Value system - Exceptions Value system - Consistency Value system - Idealized vs. Realized
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Value system - Individualism vs. collectivism

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A vector space (or linear space) is the basic object of study in the branch of mathematics called linear algebra. If one considers geometrical vectors, and the operations one can perform upon these vectors such as addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, with some natural constraints such as closure of these operations, associativity of these and combinations of these operations, and so on, we arrive at a description of a m ...

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Watercolor is a painting technique using paint made of colorants suspended or dissolved in water. Although the grounds used in watercolor painting vary, the most common is paper. Others include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. Watercolor painting - History of watercolor painting. Watercolor painting began with the invention of paper in China shortly after 100 AD. In the 12th century the conquering Moors introduced papermaking to Spain and the technology spread to Italy deca ...

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Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name spelled as [vassi:li]) (December 4, 1866 (O.S., December 16, 1866 N.S.) – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born French painter and art theorist. One of the most important 20th-century artists, alongside Picasso and Matisse, he is credited with painting the first abstract works in the history of modern art. Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and economics. Although quite successful in his profession, he started painting studies ...

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Wassily Kandinsky - Youth and inspirations 1866-1896 Wassily Kandinsky - Artistic metamorphosis 1896-1911 Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider 1911-1914 Wassily Kandinsky - Return to Russia 1914-1921 Wassily Kandinsky - The Bauhaus 1922-1933 Wassily Kandinsky - The great synthesis 1934-1944 Wassily Kandinsky - Assessment
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Wassily Kandinsky - On the Spiritual In Art Wassily Kandinsky - Point and Line to Plane
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