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61Antiscience — is a position critical of science and the scientific method. People holding antiscientific views are generally skeptical that science is an objective method, as it purports to be, or that it generates universal knowledge. They also contend that… …
62Secondary measure — In mathematics, the secondary measure associated with a measure of positive density ho when there is one, is a measure of positive density mu, turning the secondary polynomials associated with the orthogonal polynomials for ho into an orthogonal… …
63hernia — hernial, adj. /herr nee euh/, n., pl. hernias, herniae / nee ee /. Pathol. the protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in its surrounding walls, esp. in the abdominal region. Cf. hiatus hernia, strangulated hernia. [1350 1400; ME < L …
64Circuits over sets of natural numbers — Circuits over natural numbers is a mathematical model used in studying computational complexity theory. It is a special case of circuit, the object is a labeled directed acyclic graph the nodes of which evaluate to sets of natural numbers, the… …
65Nearest-neighbor chain algorithm — In the theory of cluster analysis, the nearest neighbor chain algorithm is a method that can be used to perform several types of agglomerative hierarchical clustering, using an amount of memory that is linear in the number of points to be… …
66Phenomenology (The beginnings of) — The beginnings of phenomenology Husserl and his predecessors Richard Cobb Stevens Edmund Husserl was the founder of phenomenology, one of the principal movements of twentieth century philosophy. His principal contribution to philosophy was his… …
67Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
68NP-complete — Euler diagram for P, NP, NP complete, and NP hard set of problems In computational complexity theory, the complexity class NP complete (abbreviated NP C or NPC) is a class of decision problems. A decision problem L is NP complete if it is in the… …
69Holism — Distinguish from the suffix holism, which describes addictions. Holism (from gr. ὅλος holos , a Greek word meaning all , entire , total ) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical, social, economic, mental,… …
70Interval cycle — In music, an interval cycle is a collection of pitch classes created from a sequence of the same interval class.[1] In other words a collection of pitches by starting with a certain note and going up by a certain interval until the original note… …
