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

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budget

Philosophy; General philosophy

A statement of a government's planned or expected financial position for a specified period of time (usually one year) based on estimates of the expenditures to be made by the ...

Count-Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1707-1788) One of the greatest French scientists of the eighteenth century. He wrote a Natural History in 24 volumes which was an encyclopedia of the science of his time, ...

Bund

Philosophy; General philosophy

The General Jewish Workers' Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia was organized in 1897 at the inaugural congress the Jewish Social-Democratic groups in Vilna. It was an ...

Sidney Percival Bunting

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1873-1936) Bunting was a founder member and principal architect of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Bunting was born in London in 1873, the great grandson of Jabez ...

Sonia Bunting

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1922-2001) Born Sonia Isaacman in Johannesburg in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the ...

bureaucracy

Philosophy; General philosophy

An organization (civil servants) characterized by hierarchical, centralized authority with clearly stated procedure for carrying out its tasks.

Thomas Francis Burgers

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1834-1881) President of the Transvaal (South Africa) Republic. He was educated for the Church at Ultrecht University but he was suspended for heresy when he began to practice in ...