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| the act of setting apart or taking for one's own use |
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| A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstalk, rootstock. |
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| Something of mixed origin or composition |
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| Posthumans could be a symbiosis of human and artificial intelligence, or uploaded consciousnesses, or the result of making many smaller but cumulatively profound technological augmentations to a biological human, i.e. a cyborg |
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| A state of dependence in which the existence or significance of one entity is solely dependent on that of another. |
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| secondary association of inferiority: an image without the substance or qualities of the original |
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| political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of social minorities, or self-identified social interest groups and the way in which people's politics are being shaped by aspects of their identity through race, class, religion, sexual orientation |
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| philosophical term meaning "otherness" |
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| any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily |
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| It is based on the linguistic theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, which hold that language is a self-contained system of sign |
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| philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical |
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| questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words |
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| The metaphysical theory that the essential properties of an object can be distinguished from those that are accidental to it. |
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| A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent. |
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| The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. |
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| words have no absolute meaning, any text is open to an unlimited range of interpretations |
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| the point (or threshold) beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced |
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