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noun
- literally the quality or state of being a fact
- Philosophy: considered one's place, body, past, position, and fundamental relationship to the Other.
- The collection of "facts" and/or labels which are one half of a dichotomy between transcendence (of consciousness) and a person's facticity.
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noun (fallac, ies)
- Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
- An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not.
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noun - fate, fatality, the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot change them.
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| formal |
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noun
- formalin
adjective
- being in accord with established forms
- official
- relating to the form or structure of something
- ceremonial
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| formalism |
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noun
- (context, computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- (context, literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
- (context, music) The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in wikipedia:Serialism, Serial music.
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noun
- The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
- Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound .
- The state of being free, unconstrained; the lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general.
- Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.
- Freedom to choose one's own destiny can be frightening.
- Every child has a right to from fear and from want.
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| free variable |
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noun
- (complang) A variable that is not bind, bound to a storage location.
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| free will |
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noun
- (philosophy) The ability to choose one's actions, or determine what reasons are acceptable motivation for actions.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that humans (and possibly other entities) are able to choose their actions without being caused to do so by external forces.
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