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• Explanation — Ex pla*na tion, n. [L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.] 1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• explanation — /ek spleuh nay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of explaining. 2. something that explains; a statement made to clarify something and make it understandable; exposition: an explanation of a poem. 3. a meaning or interpretation: to find an… …   Universalium

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• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi — (25 January, 1743 10 March, 1819), was a German philosopher notable for coining the term nihilism and promoting it as the prime fault of Enlightenment thought and Kantianism.sep entry|friedrich jacobi] Instead of speculative reason, he advocated… …   Wikipedia

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• workforce agreement — An agreement between an employer and its employees or workers recording negotiated variations to certain statutory rights and entitlements. A workforce agreement must: • Be in writing; • Be for a fixed term of not more than five years; • Cover… …   Law dictionary

• metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …   Universalium

• Neo-Platonism — Eyjólfur K.Emilsson GENERAL INTRODUCTION Neo Platonism is usually defined as the philosophy of Plotinus, who lived in the third century AD, and his followers in the pagan Graeco Roman world in late antiquity. The most significant philosophers… …   History of philosophy

• Hermeneutics — 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 …   History of philosophy