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The '''Princeton Science Library''' is a [[book series]] of [[popular science]] written by scientists known for their popular writings * ''[[Flatland]]: A Romance of Many Dimensions'' by [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]] (1884) ...

{{Short description|School of thought within decision theory}} ...sion theory]] (EDT), which recommends the action which would be indicative of the best outcome if one received the "news" that it had been taken.<ref nam ...

...ed works across a diverse range of subjects including the curative effects of [[hypnotism]].<ref name=":2" /> ...irst two notes on optical illusions in the Bulletin of the [[Royal Academy of Belgium]].<ref name=":43"/> He then began his research in [[psychophysics]] ...

...447).jpg|thumb|320px|[[Peter Singer]] is one of the prominent philosophers of [[effective altruism]].]] ...many lives you save or how much good you otherwise do with a given amount of resources''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schubert |first=Stefan |url=https://fdsl ...

{{short description|System of propositional logic developed by the Stoic philosophers}} ...the system of [[propositional logic]] developed by the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosophers in [[ancient Greece]]. ...

{{short description|Study of the scope and nature of logic}} ...to the philosophy of logic as the discipline investigating the properties of formal logical systems, like [[consistency]] and [[Completeness (logic)|com ...

{{short description|Aesthetic value of mathematics}} ...mb|An example of "beauty in method"—a simple and elegant visual descriptor of the [[Pythagorean theorem]].]] ...

...elfish pleasure derived from "doing good", regardless of the actual impact of one's generosity. Within the warm-glow framework, people may be "impurely a ...l=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12m108p4|journal=Social and Personality Psychology Compass|language=en|volume=9|issue=2|pages=57–68|doi=10.1111/spc3.12157|s2c ...

...sciousness: here, there and everywhere?|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|language=en|volume=370|issue=1668| .... Therefore, it should be possible to account for the conscious experience of a physical system by unfolding its complete causal powers.<ref name=Tononi2 ...

...s]], in which case there exists no well-defined optimal choice. An example of this is [[Efron dice]]. ...s://plato.stanford.edu/entries/preferences/ |journal=Stanford Encyclopedia of Economics}}</ref> ...

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...5) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.pdf|thumb|alt=first page of research paper|Ioannidis (2005): "[[Why Most Published Research Findings Ar ...ries building on them and potentially call into question substantial parts of scientific knowledge. ...

...udents taking an exam in order to apply for the Don Bosco Technical School of [[Sihanoukville (city)|Sihanoukville]] in 2008]] ...determined area that requires a test taker to demonstrate or perform a set of skills. ...

{{Short description|Period of cultural flourishing from 786 to 1258}} | image4 = 1950 "Avicenna" stamp of Iran.jpg ...

{{Short description|Study of correct reasoning}} {{About|the study of correct reasoning||Logic (disambiguation)|and|Logician (disambiguation)}} ...

{{Short description|Interpretation of quantum mechanics}} {{Quantum mechanics|cTopic=[[Interpretation of quantum mechanics|Interpretations]]}} ...

...st3=F. |title=Metric 3D reconstruction and texture acquisition of surfaces of revolution from a single uncalibrated view |journal=IEEE Transactions on Pa '''Mathematics and art''' are related in a variety of ways. [[Mathematics]] has itself been described as an [[art]] [[mathematica ...

{{see also|List of logicians}} {{wiktionary|Appendix:Glossary of logic}} ...

...ommons+images&pg=PA77|title=The Innovators Behind Leonardo: The True Story of the Scientific and Technological Renaissance|last=Innocenzi|first=Plinio|da ...Museo Scienza e Tecnologia Milano.tif|thumb|[[Alessandro Cruto]], creator of the first practical long-lasting incandescent [[Light Bulb|light bulb]]<ref ...

...tra_at_Tarsus_1642_Claude_Lorrain.jpg|thumb|''Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus'' (1642), by [[Claude Lorrain]], [[Louvre|Musée du Louv ...and with certain lighting and color effects can determine the composition of the work and the image that the artist wants to project. Also, light can ha ...