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Comparing The Bible And Rig Veda
828 wordsThe Rig-Veda is a collection of hymns, which contain the mythology of the Hindu gods, and is considered to be one of the foundations of the Hindu religion. The Rig Veda was passed on orally for many generations. When they were written down, they were first written in Vedic, an early form of Sanskrit. Then around 300 B. C. the Vedas were written down in the form we have them today. The Rig Veda, Book of Genesis, and the Book of Psalms are all fundamental to the thought of each of the followers. A...
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Senior Citizen Rental Housing
2,041 words... modern system controls over 200, 000 apartments in New York City in 1999. The owner of these apartments cannot voluntarily raise the apartment price and to evict tenants. The rent control is losing it ground to the vacancy decontrol that seems to present a wonderful alternative to rent control since early 1980 s. The controlled apartment units in modern day New York are only 6. 4 % of the total apartment for rent figure in Big Apple. As a comparison in 1975, the city controlled over 2 millio...
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God Does Not Exist Concept Of God
1,718 wordsFor being accustomed in all other things to make a distinction between existence and essence, I easily persuade myself that existence may perhaps be separated from the essence of God, and thus God might be conceived as not existent actually. PROP. XI. God, or substance, consisting, of infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality, necessarily exists. Proof. If this be denied, conceive, if possible, that God does not exist: then his essence does not involve existe...
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Secondary Qualities Primary Qualities
1,458 wordsAs man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas persisted and were eventually tackled by the more intellectual, so-called philosophers. Thus, excavation of the external world began. As the authoritarianism of the ancients gave way to the more liberal v...
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Cause And Effect Argument
1,589 wordsEssay 2 First we will consider the assigned baseball scenario under Leibniz? s system of metaphysics. In the baseball scenario, the aggregate of the player, bat, pitch, swing and all the other substances in the universe are one and all contingent. There are other possible things, to be sure; but there are also other possible universes that could have existed but did not. The totality of contingent things, the bat, the player, etc. , themselves do not explain themselves. Here Leibniz involves the...
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Secondary Qualities Primary Qualities
1,991 wordsPhilosophy Philosophy Berkeley Due, mozilla Philosophy The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon one central supposition of the materialist to formulate his argument of skepticism against him; this idea is that one can never perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feel...
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