Dialectics is the science of the most general laws of development of nature, society, and thought. Its principal features are as follows: 1) The universe is not an accidental mix of things isolated from each other, but an integral whole, wherein things are mutually interdependent. 2) Nature is in a state of constant motion: "All nature, from the smallest thing to the biggest, from a grain of sand to the sun, from the protista to man, is in a constant state of coming into being and going out of being, in a constant flux, in a ceaseless state of movement and change." - ...

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Dialectical materialism, Dialectical materialism - Materialism, Dialectical materialism - Dialectics, Dialectical materialism - Laws of dialectics, Dialectical materialism - Quotation, Dialectical materialism - Selected readings on dialectical materialism

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The main serious objection advanced by the critics of Marxism and of historical materialism is that as soon as Marxists really begin to study the historical facts, there is either no longer anything distinctively "Marxist" about what they do, or else the facts are twisted to fit with a preconceived dogma. In the worst case, this arguably leads to the totalitarian temptation to try and force the course of history in a particular direction, based on a false belief that one "knows" the way history is moving. The idea here i ...

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Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note

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Brill publishers of Leyden publish a journal called "Historical Materialism" which explores different strands of theory in the tradition of Marx, Engels and the Western Marxists. A variety of myths and lies about Marx's thought are refuted on this site: http://marxmyths.org/index.shtml An extensive bibliography of modern commentaries on Marx's thought is available here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sefd0/bib/marx.htm ...

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Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note

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Marx himself took care to indicate that he was only proposing a guideline to historical research (Leitfaden or Auffassung), and was not providing any substantive "theory of history" or "grand philosophy of history", let alone a "master-key to history". Numerous times, he and Engels expressed irritation with dilletante academics who sought to knock up their skimpy historical knowledge as quickly as possible into some grand theoretical system that would explain "everything" about history. To their great annoyance, the materialist outlook ...

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Historical materialism, Historical materialism - Development of the materialist outlook, Historical materialism - Disclaimers, Historical materialism - Historical materialism as doctrine, Historical materialism - Criticisms, Historical materialism - Marxist beliefs about history, Historical materialism - Alienation and freedom, Historical materialism - Marx and Wakefield, Historical materialism - A revision of historical materialism?, Historical materialism - Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical materialism, Historical materialism - Note

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A common exercise for an introductory logic text to include is symbolizations. These exercises give a student a sentence or paragraph of text in ordinary language which the student has to translate into the symbolic language. This is done by recognizing the ordinary language equivalents of the logical terms, which usually include the material conditional, disjunction, conjunction, negation, and (frequently) biconditional. More advanced logic books and later chapters of introductory volumes often add identity, Ex ...

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Material conditional, Material conditional - Symbolizations, Material conditional - Truth Tables, Material conditional - Comparison to Other Conditional Statements

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Metal or metalling has had two distinct usages in road paving. Metalling originally referred to the process of creating a carefully-engineered gravel roadway. The route of the roadway first would be dug down several feet. Depending on local conditions, French drains may or may not have been added. Next, large stone was placed and compacted, followed by successive layers of smaller stone, until the road surface was a smal ...

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Pavement material, Pavement material - Metalling, Pavement material - Asphalt paving, Pavement material - Concrete paving, Pavement material - Bituminous Surface Treatment BST, Pavement material - Other paving methods, Pavement material - Pavement deterioration

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Note that some practitioners often consider rheology a sub-field of materials science, because it can cover any material that flows. However, modern rheology typically deals with non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, so it is often consider a sub-field of continuum mechanics. See also granular material. Surface science --- interactions and structures between solid-gas solid-liquid or solid-solid interfaces. Ceramics, which can be subdivided into: electronic materials such as complex oxides, structural ceramics ...

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Materials science, Materials science - Classes of materials by bond types, Materials science - Sub-fields of materials science, Materials science - Topics that form the basis of materials science, Materials science - A non-exhaustive list of some materials science research institutions and facilities

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Note that some practitioners often consider rheology a sub-field of materials science, because it can cover any material that flows. However, modern rheology typically deals with non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, so it is often consider a sub-field of continuum mechanics. See also granular material. Surface science --- interactions and structures between solid-gas solid-liquid or solid-solid interfaces. Ceramics, which can be subdivided into: electronic materials such as complex oxides, structural ceramics ...

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Materials science, Materials science - Classes of materials by bond types, Materials science - Sub-fields of materials science, Materials science - Topics that form the basis of materials science, Materials science - A short list of non-academic materials facilities

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non-material

Not of substance known to earth's sciences, such as ectoplasm

(See also: Non-material, Body Mind and Soul)

material world

Visible part of the spiritual world

(See also: Material world, Body Mind and Soul)

GLARE is currently (2004) the most successful FML, patented by Akzo Nobel in 1987 and now entering commercial application on the Airbus A380, which is currently in flight testing. The patent cites as inventors Roebroeks and Vogelesang, two former professors at the aerospace engineering faculty of Delft University of Technology, where much of the R&D for GLARE was done in the 1970s and 1980s. The fruition of FML development marks the end of a long history of research starting in 1945 at Fokker, where earlier bonding experience at DeHavilland inspired investigation into the improved properties of bonded aluminium l ...

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Glare material, Glare material - History

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Seth materials

Jane Roberts (1929-84), a modern-day amanuensis, received material for several books from an entity, Seth, who taught through her

(See also: Seth materials, Body Mind and Soul)

Body piercing materials - Wood. Wood is among the oldest materials for body piercing jewelry, and jewelry in general. It is still a very common material for plugs and other things. Wooden pieces tend to keep warm in cold conditions, they are lightweight, they often stay in place better than other plugs and also they allow the body to "breathe" so the piercing is less likely to smell as it might with other materials. The downside of wood as a piercing jewelry is its abundance of pores that suck up bo ...

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Body piercing materials, Body piercing materials - Metals, Body piercing materials - Surgical steel, Body piercing materials - Implantatium, Body piercing materials - Titanium, Body piercing materials - Blackline, Body piercing materials - Zircon Gold / Zircontwo, Body piercing materials - Niobium, Body piercing materials - Bronze, Body piercing materials - Silver, Body piercing materials - Gold, Body piercing materials - Glass, Body piercing materials - Plastics, Body piercing materials - PTFE, Body piercing materials - Acrylic plexiglas, Body piercing materials - Plastastic, Body piercing materials - Gems, Body piercing materials - Materials of biological origin, Body piercing materials - Wood, Body piercing materials - Animalic, Body piercing materials - Amber, Body piercing materials - Sources

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materializing medium

The physical medium supplying ectoplasm for visual manifestation, such as manifesting the face or the form of one who is in afterlife

(See also: Materializing medium, Body Mind and Soul)

Definition and meaning of nonbiodegradable material:

nonbiodegradable material - a material that cannot be broken into simpler chemicals by living organismss

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of type material:

type material - in taxonomy, a collective term for all type specimens

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Definition and meaning of Material fact :

This refers to any fact which would influence the judgment of a prudent underwriter in deciding whether to accept an insurance/reinsurance risk and the terms on which he would be willing to grant cover. See duty of disclosure.

(Source Lloyd's )

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Definition and meaning of Material representation :

A statement that is made to an underwriter during the negotiation of cover or the amendment or renewal of cover which would have influenced the judgment of a prudent underwriter in deciding whether to accept an insurance/reinsurance risk and the terms on which he would be willing to grant cover.

(Source Lloyd's )

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Cartesian materialism - A philosophy without adherents?. Perhaps the primary objection to Dennett's use of the term Cartesian materialism is that it is a philosophy without adherents. In this view, Cartesian materialism is essential a "Straw Man" — an argument explicitly constructed just so it can to be refuted. Cartesian materialism is unique in that almost no one admits to believing in it. Indeed, it is a point of intense debate as to h ...

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Cartesian materialism, Cartesian materialism - History, Cartesian materialism - Cartesian Dualism, Cartesian materialism - Materialism, Cartesian materialism - Dennett's Cartesian materialism, Cartesian materialism - Other uses of the term, Cartesian materialism - Controversies and criticisms, Cartesian materialism - A philosophy without adherents?, Cartesian materialism - Arguments Against Cartesian Materialism, Cartesian materialism - Arguments for Cartesian Materialism

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Disruptive Pattern Material, or DPM, is a camouflage pattern used by British forces as well many other armies worldwide, particulalry in former colonies. Direct copies or variations of DPM have been used by: Canada, Jordan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, to name but a few. The main variant is a four-colour woodland pattern with olive, tan, brown and black, there is also a two-colour desert variant in tan and brown. DPM has been criticised for its use of black, as â ...

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Disruptive Pattern Material, Disruptive Pattern Material - Disruptive Pattern Material DPM, Disruptive Pattern Material - History

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The complex dynamic modulus of Maxwell material would be: Thus, the components of the dynamic modulus are : and The picture shows relaxational spectrum for Maxwell material. ...

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Maxwell material, Maxwell material - Definition, Maxwell material - Effect of a sudden deformation, Maxwell material - Effect of a sudden stress, Maxwell material - Dynamic modulus

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"Material Girl" became another top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and another #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play. It had a less-favorable run on the R&B chart this time, however, only barely making it into the top 50. Internationally, the song went top 5 in the UK, Canada and Australia, among other countries. ...

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Material Girl, Material Girl - The song, Material Girl - The video, Material Girl - Chart success, Material Girl - Charts, Material Girl - Included On, Material Girl - Official Versions

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