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

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Percy Bridgman
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1882 -1961) American physicist who carried out path-breaking research into the behavior of materials at high temperatures and pressures, including early attempts to manufacture ...

Eugene Brieux
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1858-1938) French dramatist. Often called "the French Bernard Shaw/' though he was a member of the French Academy and an officer of the Legion of Honor. His play La foi ...

Daniel Garrison Brinton
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1837-1899) Ethnologist. An army surgeon who became professor of ethnology, of which he was one of the chief pioneers in America, and President of the American Association for the ...

Charlie Dunbar Broad
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1887-1971) English philosopher. Although he criticized the extravagant speculation of absolute idealists like McTaggart in his Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy, Broad was ...

Rupert Brooke
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1887-1915) British poet of great promise who was a victim of the First European War. Many of his poems in 1914 and Other Poems shows his freethinking. In "Heaven" he satirizes ...

President Charles de Brasses
Philosophy; General philosophy

(1709-1777) French historian and statesman, president of the Dijon Parliament. His published letters (Lettres familieres) curiously illustrate the superficial religion and barely ...

brothers of the shadow
Philosophy; General philosophy

A term given in occultism and especially in modern esotericism to individuals, whether men or women, who follow the path of the shadows, the left-hand path. The term "shadow" is a ...

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