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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.

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al-kaifiyat al-isti'dadiyah

Philosophy; General philosophy

Qualities of capacity, i.e. qualities of a thing on account-of power or ability possessed by it to act in a certain manner or to suffer a certain change. If this capacity is ...

al-kaifiyat al-mahsusah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The sensible qualities: these are either firmly rooted in things like sweetness in honey or salinity in brine in which case they are called 'infi'aliyat, or they are merely ...

al-kaifiyat al-nafsaniyah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The mental states or qualities both innate and acquired. A permanent state of mind becoming a part of the structure of mind is called malakah, i.e. a disposition or habit like the ...

Colonel Ethan Allen

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1737-1789) Leader of the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont in the War of Independence, later in the State Legislature. He published what seems to have been the first anti-Christian ...

allocation

Philosophy; General philosophy

The division of things into shares or portions. In economics, the term refers primarily to the "allocation of resources," the process by which economic resources get allotted ...

allochiria

Philosophy; General philosophy

A neurological disorder in which stimuli presented to one side of the patient's body are responded to as if they were presented to the opposite side. Can result from damage to the ...

al-nafs al-insaniyah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The human mind or soul. It possesses all the faculties and powers of the vegetable mind as well as those of the animal mind, but in addition has the rational faculty peculiar to ...