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51Peirce, Charles Sanders — American pragmatism Peirce Cheryl Misak INTRODUCTION Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), one of America’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians, was a difficult and not altogether pleasant character. That, combined with what the… …
52magician — Synonyms and related words: Circe, Merlin, Prospero, ace, airiness, appearance, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, charmer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, conjuror, coryphee, crackerjack, dancer, dancing girl,… …
53semblance — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, accordance, acting, affectation, affinity, agreement, air, airiness, alibi, alikeness, alliance, analogy, angle, aping, apology, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation, atmosphere,… …
54simulacrum — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, angle, appearance, aspect, associate, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, brother, certified copy, cheat, cheating, clinquant, close copy,… …
56Water clock — For the individual water clock at The Children s Museum of Indianapolis, see Water clock (Indianapolis). A display of two outflow water clocks from the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens. The top is an original from the late 5th century BC. The… …
57Trent Affair — James Murray Mason (1798–1871). John Sli …
58Lumbee — Infobox Ethnic group group = Lumbee pop = 53,000Fact|date=August 2008 regions = flagcountry|United States region1 = flagicon|North Carolina North Carolina pop1 = region2 = flagicon|Virginia Virginia pop2 = langs = English rels = related =The… …
59Molière — /mohl yair /; Fr. /maw lyerdd /, n. (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622 73, French actor and playwright. * * * orig. Jean Baptiste Poquelin (baptized Jan. 15, 1622, Paris, France died Feb. 17, 1673, Paris) French playwright, actor, and director. The… …
60mind, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that studies the nature of mind and its various manifestations, including intentionality, sensation and sense perception, feeling and emotion, traits of character and personality, the unconscious, volition, thought, memory,… …
