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  • 21British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price — David McNaughton In this chapter I discuss the moral theories of three influential writers: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713); Joseph Butler (1692–1752) and Richard Price (1723–91). All three wrote extensively on issues …

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  • 22Schopenhauer, Arthur — Arthur Schopenhauer Kathleen M.Higgins Despite a recent surge of philosophical interest, Arthur Schopenhauer remains one of the most underappreciated philosophers of modern times. He has arguably had a greater influence on subsequent philosophy… …

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  • 23density — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Compactness Nouns 1. density, denseness, solidity, solidness; impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity; cohesion (see coherence); constipation; consistency, spissitude; specific… …

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  • 24Density — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Density >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 density density solidity Sgm: N 1 solidness solidness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impenetrability impenetrability impermeability Sgm: N 1 incompressibility incompressibility Sgm …

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  • 25impassable — impassable, impenetrable, impervious, impermeable are comparable when they mean not allowing passage through. Impassable applies chiefly to stretches of land or water which cannot be passed over or crossed because of some insuperable difficulty… …

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  • 26Acacia colletioides — Wait a while Wait a while , n. (a) One of the Australian wattle trees ({Acacia colletioides}), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. (b) same as {Wait a bit}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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  • 27Artist's proof — Proof Proof, n. [OF. prove, proeve, F. preuve, fr. L. proba, fr. probare to prove. See {Prove}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. [1913… …

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  • 28Fe3O4 — Iron I ron ([imac] [u^]rn), a. [AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen. See {Iron}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. [1913 Webster] 3. Like iron in …

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  • 29Impenetrableness — Im*pen e*tra*ble*ness, n. The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30Iron — I ron ([imac] [u^]rn), a. [AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen. See {Iron}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness. [1913 Webster] 3. Like iron in… …

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