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Broad-concept articles
- MindThe mind thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It is, by any measure, the most intimate thing each of us possesses, and yet philosophers…
- ViolenceThe economic impact of violence on the world economy in 2024 was estimated at 17.5 trillion dollars. That figure comes from the Institute for Economics and…
- TimeTime is what a clock reads. Physicists settled on that blunt, almost evasive definition to escape a trap, because defining time any other way tends to fold…
- InfrastructureConcrete is the backbone of the modern built world. Twice as much of it is used in construction than all other building materials combined.
- InterdisciplinarityInterdisciplinarity names something that has been happening in human thought for a very long time, even if we only coined the modern word for it in the…
- Peer reviewPeer review is the process by which a piece of work is judged not by its creator, but by someone equally qualified to have made it.
- CommunicationCommunication is commonly defined as the transmission of information, yet that simple phrase hides a quarrel that scholars have never settled.
- De factoDe facto is a Latin phrase meaning "in fact" or "in reality," and it draws one of the sharpest lines in law and governance.
- PeeragePeerage covers a specific fracture in British history. When King James II and VII was deposed from the thrones of England, Ireland, and Scotland, his exiled…
- CausalityCausality is the invisible thread that binds every event to what came before it. Strike a match, and a flame appears. Drop a glass, and it shatters.
- SecrecyA U.S. soldier stands at a camp during World War II while the slogan Loose lips might sink ships warns against careless talk.