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Review Submission on Ginsberg's America
I think Allen Ginsberg saw this country as a land of opportunity and hope. He expected everything America advertises itself to be: Equal, full of deep and passionate people, accepting. He felt let down by our obsession with pop culture, and our cruel treatment of those who fail to fall into society’s norms. Of course, people are like this everywhere, but I think he felt particularly betrayed because America advertised itself to be different. Ginsberg had such high hopes and they were dashed by greed and poverty. Because of this, he also feels distant, separated from the country he was so excited to be a part of.

I agree with him in some aspect. America claims to be a place of beauty and peace, where we are concerned for others. But as Ginsberg cited in the passage, ‘when will you send your eggs to India’, we really don’t help out that much. We bring more destruction and war much of the time then we do peace.

We are all America. We call make up this country, yet much of the time, we let the flow of society shape us. We’re told we need drugs and medication to be happy, and we listen. We, for the most part, ignore the homeless and those we don’t consider redeemable human beings. We allow them to be forgotten. We build on top of the backs of the blue-collar worker, and don’t give them the credit. We do what we are told we need to do in order to be happy, yet we never achieve it. What is good for one is not good for all.

We rest and judge other countries on how they work. We think that our way is always best. We are not a communistic society, therefore, communism is bad. Individuals will deny thinking this way, yet a lot of the time, we do. When was the last time you gave some money to a panhandler? When was the last time you wrote to someone in prison? When was the last time you thought about the plight of Haiti? We all judge, we all get wrapped up in ourselves. And when we do it as a collective whole, it’s dangerous. We fail to watch each other’s backs, and in our silence, we encourage our own selfish behavior. We become that which we despise.

Those who break those chains of bondage, who snap out of that circular thinking, are condemned insane, sometimes correctly so. And immediately, Americans as a whole begins pushing them to become clones again. “Get on pills! Be normal! Conform!” They attempt to pound them back into the ground, force them into their holes, make them a part of the hive mind again.

If we refuse to ‘give up our obsessions’, our hunts for true freedom, we are shunned and trampled upon like all those who came before us. I agree with Ginsberg. There must be another way to settle this war within ourselves. Or all we ever fought to achieve has been for naught. Wanderingsilverstone 04:01, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Regarding http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/america.html Yuck! A prime example of why the public school system should teach obsessive people to spend some of their time every day on "my glass is half full" contemplation.  Ginsberg should seek a priest capable of explaining the basics of a faith based belief system, review a timeline of human history and acknowledge there is less murder and more justice in America for more people than ever before in history anywhere.  After thus fortifying himself with some facts regarding the external universe he might be able to expend some mental energy on solving a few problems instead of immersing himself in negativity and whining about his priveleged mode of existence.  user:lazyquasar ~1700 28 Dec 05

Poetry submission
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http://americanmohawk.blogspot.com --Noisecontrol 03:01, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Fiction submission
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Literature or Writing?
This strikes me not as a Writing course, but as a Literature course focusing on Fiction in general. Is this intended to be a Lit course, or a Writing course? The Jade Knight 10:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Writing a Book Review
Because many of the assignments involve writing reviews, it may be helpful to include a referral to the course Writing a Book Review. Thanks! --Lbeaumont (discuss • contribs) 11:27, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

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Dear Lucas. I'm Lucas! ;) I'm sysop on it.wiki and I would like to usurp this account. Let me know. Thanks. --Lucas

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Welcome to Wikiversity; translation
"Thus, the only relevant term here is 'research' and, as such, this term implies a set of critical methodologies. that transcend the merely literary."
 * Does "critical" here mean "crucial" or "criticism-related"?
 * Does "literary" here mean "on the surface of the words" or "literature-related"?

 * My best guess is that "critical methodologies" means "crucial methodologies". The original author seemed to be arguing that "real" research involves methods that go beyond what can be achieved by any evaluation of the existing published literature. I think "literary" here means "literature-related", as in what could arise from study and evaluation of previously published results. --JWSchmidt 01:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for editing the Strategic Studies pages. I read over those selections of text so often that after a point, I'm incapable of spotting stylistic errors. Thanks, your work is much appreciated.--Dnjkirk 05:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The End of Eternity
I just noticed some comments you left at Talk:The End of Eternity. I have been thinking about starting a Wikiversity learning project called Exploring science through fiction. Would you be interested in such a project? --JWSchmidt 04:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * "What is your plan?" <-- I'm mostly interested in biology, but the project could cover all sciences. The basic idea would be to have a reading list of science fiction then discuss the science issues raised by the fiction. "Most of the good science fictions do not include the new advances in science" <-- I'm not really concerned with finding and using "good science fiction". The main point is to just use fiction as a starting point that will lead into learning real science. --JWSchmidt 16:14, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

possible science fiction/science topics

 * Books such as Paths to Otherwhere by James Hogan could be used to introduce the Many-worlds interpretation and quantum theory. Some of Stephen Baxter's books (such as the Manifold Trilogy) could introduce topics that cross from physics to biology such as the idea that there are physical processes like stellar gamma-ray generating events that seriously impact the evolution of biological organisms. Books such as Marvin Minsky's The Turing Option could be used to introduce artificial intelligence as compared to biological intelligence. Books such as Assignment Nor'Dyren by Sydney J. Van Scyoc could be used as introductions to genetic engineering. --JWSchmidt 19:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Motto
I think learning by doing would be an acceptable motto- it motivates me, and it describes wikiversity. It is mentioned a lot; was it ever proposed?--Hillgentleman 12:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the suggestion. This option could be suggested as an option in the learn and teach motto discussion section. -- Reswik 02:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Honesty and Civility
Hi Hillgentleman, and let me first take a moment to thank you for the comments and work you've been putting into discussions about Wikiversity - both here and on Meta. I've been meaning to stop by and say that for some time now. :-)

On honesty, I agree that it should be an over-riding principle (or "code"), but I'm interested in why you see Wikiversity as being so different from Wikipedia in this regard. Why do you see it as more difficult to deal with dishonesty here? Should we have something more definitive in place perhaps? What, for example do you think of Disclosures as a related policy? Would honesty fit in with that, or does it still need to be separate, in your opinion?

In any case, I think this kind of discussion would be most appropriate for the Colloquium. This kind of thinking is fundamental to shaping the kind of project that we can all be a part of and inspire others to be a part of it too. Thanks for your help. Cormaggio 13:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:The name
Hello again :-), the name "Wikiversity" was coined as a potential name for the Wikibooks project - see this mail (and its responses), m:Talk:Wikiversity/Old, and m:Talk:Wikiversity/Archive_2. However, the project became "Wikibooks", and Wikiversity then became a subproject within Wikibooks - until this August, when it became a separate project. Cormaggio 19:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Sysop?
Well, i was wondering, is Hillgentleman a Sysop yet? Just asking Heltec  talk

 * Answer on user page

Would you accept if i nominated you for sysop, as you are one of the few emmbers who actually adds eduational matirials. Heltec talk

Treasure hunt
"An idea of an idea" - I like it :-). Yes, it's an interesting idea - to test how usable Wikiversity is. The only thing I'd say is that surely we are trying to educate people to be able to use/navigate Wikiversity more efficiently - so why would we want to prevent someone from using Google or Recent Changes? (And how would we find that out? Through their accounts of their paths? But if we said it wasn't allowed in the rules, wouldn't people want to cover that up? :-) Just a thought.) However, if you wanted to try this out, you could do it in your userspace for now, and I'll happily play the guinea pig to try it out :-). Keep the ideas coming! Cormaggio 11:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Confused
Could you explain, what you meant to say with this edit? It seems somewhat out of place at Wikiversity or do I misunderstand something? sebmol ? 16:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * How did you get that? I'm seeing this:, coming from the IP before Hillgentleman.--Rayc 19:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe it was a mistake in my recent changes view. I think that section should just be removed without further discussion. sebmol ? 20:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi there
Hi I'm Student Galaxy, a new user on Wikiversity, and I can certainly say. There's a lot needing to be done, I have made 100 contributions already, and I'm looking for stuff to do. Student Galaxy 12:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I do football research
I do football research. Please do not comment on that. I' am only helping Wikiversity. I have seen a lot of matches, practiced a lot, and played a few matches. I listen to the words of coaches, and if I can teach it I can. I' am just trying to help. Student Galaxy 12:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh by the way, I play defence and in goal. Quite good at it.

navigation bar
Hello my friend, as I see you made a change here. Was this because you wanted me to help because of this? Unfortunately my problem still persist. Do you know a hint? --Erkan Yilmaz 20:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much Hillgentleman. --Erkan Yilmaz 07:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

multilanguage-linking of dicussion pages
Hello again, I answered, perhaps you could also give it a try? I saw your "see also" on the page - in the end, perhaps this is the only solution. :-( --Erkan Yilmaz 21:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * thank you for the link, will give it a try soon. --Erkan Yilmaz 12:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Basic atomic physics
Thanks for your attention to Basic atomic physics! I take it Mathematics of Theoretical Physics ought to be Mathematics for Theoretical Physics. I can move it there if appropriate.

As for the removed text:

...I was attempting to direct the reader to a "real world" dialog that, to me, illustrates how the language (math for physics) is shared within a relevant context, resourcefully, between those who, I feel, know the topic well.

I tried to set the tone of the article to what I hope is a friendly one, alerting the reader to a common "gothcha" when thinking about deep science — one that gets me often, in fact. Feel free to expand (or contract) the article as you see fit.

I hope the tougher article Mathematics of Theoretical Physics (or Mathematics for Theoretical Physics) will capture your attention, also. Thanks again. CQ 21:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

IBC - Interlangual Beta Club
Hi, I replied here. Could you have a look please? thx. --Erkan Yilmaz 13:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Fold
Sure, but I am not entirely sure what you mean by "folding" as our termingology may vary. Do you mean archiving a talk page? Despite what you mean, I am sure that I can help you or direct you to someone who can. Happy New Year! -- J.Steinbock 06:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, there is just one more thing that needs to be established for clarity. You want to have the contents from w:zh-classical:user:hillgentleman to go on the Beta Wikiversity under your user namespace? -- J.Steinbock 22:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I clearly understand the issue now :). I will work on this and should get back to you sometime soon. -- J.Steinbock 00:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)\
 * I have been reviewing this, but I can't seem to find a solution. There is always one problem or another that arises. I would suggest that you ask Rayc and contact him on his talk page. I'm sorry that I couldn't find the solution. Best wishes. -- J.Steinbock 21:55, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

the name "wikiversity"
Originally there was a Nupedia project. I suppose that the name meant "new encyclopedia". Then it was decided to add a wiki to the Nupedia project. The original Nupedia participants objected and a new project was started called Wikipedia. A few years later people started thinking about a new wiki-based project that would go beyond the limited restrictions of Wikipedia and deal with general aspects of education and wiki-based learning. I do not think that "wikiuniversity" was ever a serious option for the name. It became traditional to use names such as "wikibooks" and "wikiquote". A few people objected to the name "wikiversity" but there was never any alternative name that had any significnt community support. I'm not sure if "wikiversity" is actually a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you want to find out more, I suggest contacting Brad Patrick of the Trademarks committee (BradPatrick user page on the meta-wiki).--JWSchmidt 20:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello.

Testing Hagemanbot
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University advertisement
Hi Hillgentleman, I'm not sure what to say about this one. I've deleted something similar (in Spanish) from :en, but I wondered afterwards whether I could have been more inclusive and encouraged the contributor to see what Wikiversity is and how they could use it. I can see some benefit to having information pages about specific schools if it backs up an activity on Wikiversity - however, it may only be necessary to link to the school's website. If there' s any chance of educating the contributor, that would be my first option - otherwise, see if it is needed and use your judgement to decide whether it should be kept or deleted. Are there (m)any portuguese contributors? Cormaggio talk 08:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Mopping up the wicked
Thanks for your message about reaction times, Hillgentlemen. The problem with publishing profiles of such people on Wikiversity is that these profiles offer information on our (developing) defences, provide clues to saboteurs about how to proceed, and act as shrines to vandals. What I can say is that I have a profile and tools, and am improving reaction times. This morning I caught the same guy in the middle of his usual 30 minute spree, which was a significant improvement on timing. McCormack 13:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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Latin stream/A2

A2 Latin is a continuation of the Latin A level after AS. The A level is a qualification in Britain and is divided into two parts, AS and A2.

The course objective is to become proficient in and around classical Latin, with a working vocabulary without requirement of a vocabulary list. By studying classical texts by Roman authors, the student should develop a love of literature, particularly classics, and engender a perpetual interest. It should also develop within the student a wide knowledge of Ancient Rome, with its customs, history, and life.

The course materials laid out below will hopefully eventually enable any autodidactic student to study towards an A grade in the overall A level. Teachers may also find the resources helpful.

Intended Materials

 * Lesson by lesson plans outlining the course that may be consumed at will.
 * Guides to Pompeii, Herculaneum and Hadrian's wall, outlining their relevancy and points of interest.
 * A recommended reading list.
 * Worksheets to encouarge students to think about certain aspects of the course.
 * Notes on exam formats and techniques.

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My term does not start until the 4th September - so little content can be developed by me before then. Dev920 15:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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Draft:Original research/Theology

Theology is "the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth [, or] the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually at a college or seminary".

Theoretical theology
Def. "reasoning or discussion concerning the Deity", is called theologia.

Def. "the science of things divine", is called theology.

Def. a deity, a god, God is called a theos.

Def. a "study of God, or a god, or gods, and the truthfulness of religion in general", or an "organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form" is called a theology.

Holy Land
Def. that part of Asia, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set is called a Holy Land.

The Holy Land is approximately 31°N latitude.

Borneo
Aceh West Malaysia Southern Thailand North Sumatra Riau Islands Riau West Sumatra Jambi South Sumatra Bengkulu Bangka– Belitung Lampung Banten Jakarta West Java Central Java Yogyakarta West Kalimantan Central Kalimantan East Java South Kalimantan East Kalimantan Brunei Sarawak Sabah North Kalimantan Bali West Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara Mindanao Gorontalo North Sulawesi South Sulawesi West Sulawesi Central Sulawesi Southeast Sulawesi Maluku North Maluku Papua West Papua Top End Papua New Guinea

Most Dayaks appear to follow their ancient animistic religious traditions (Kaharingan), but often state to belong to one of the recognized religions in Indonesia to prevent discrimination.

The Indonesian government recognizes only six official religions, and Kaharingan is not one of them.

The main festival of Kaharingan is the Tiwah festival, which lasts for thirty days, and involves the sacrifice of many animals like buffaloes, cows, pigs and chickens, as offerings to the spirits and deities.

Ancestor worship and the belief in many supernatural beings is common.

The Dayaks’ local wisdom directs that trespassing these rules will destroy the balance of the forest and animals living in the forest, and so directly or indirectly will adversely damage communities living from the forest bounty.

Central Kalimantan is located at 2°13′S 113°55′E.

Borneo is approximately 1°N latitude. The equator passes through Borneo.

Mexico
Huitzilopochtli on the right was the patron god of the Mexica tribe. Originally he was of little importance to the Nahuas, but after the rise of the Aztecs, Tlacaelel reformed their religion and put Huitzilopochtli at the same level as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, and Tezcatlipoca, making him a solar god.

North Pole
"The religions of all ancient nations ... associate the abode of the supreme God with the North Pole, the centre of heaven; or with the celestial space immediately surrounding it."

"Saturn, the old man who lives at the north pole, and brings with him to the children of men a sprig of evergreen (the Christmas tree), is familiar to the little folks under the name Santa Claus, for he brings each winter the gift of a new year."

Eastern Mediterranean Sea
"Lenormant, speaking of Rome and Olympia, remarks, "It is impossible not to note that the Capitoline was first of all the Mount of Saturn, and that the Roman archaeologists established a complete affinity between the Capitoline and Mount Cronios in Olympia, from the standpoint of their traditions and religious origin (Dionysius Halicarn., i., 34). This Mount Cronios is, as it were, the Omphalos of the sacred city of Elis, the primitive centre of its worship. It sometimes receives the name Olympos."1 Here is not only symbolism in general, but also a symbolism pointing to the Arctic Eden, already shown to be the primeval mount of Kronos, the Omphalos of the whole earth.2"

God
Def. God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts is called Allah.

"We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone."

Usage notes

While the Arabic الله is used generically to refer to God in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic contexts, current English usage almost always restricts the corresponding term Allah to Islamic contexts only. Various newspaper style manuals recommend translating the Arabic word in English as God, as this better reflects Arabic usage, but the term is often left untranslated in Islamic contexts. Thus either “Allah is great” or “God is great” may be seen.

Def.
 * 1) the single deity of various monotheistic religions,
 * 2) the single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions,
 * 3) an impersonal and universal spiritual presence or force,
 * 4) an omnipotent being, creator of the universe (as in deism), or
 * 5) the (personification of the) laws of nature
 * 6) the Horned God,

is called God.

Usage notes

God is often referred to by masculine pronouns, not necessarily implying that the speaker believes God to be male. God is also referred to by pronouns that begin with a capital letter, as a sign of respect, in many languages written in Latin script. In English, these include He, Him, His and Himself. Many Jews follow a prohibition in their tradition against using this term and other equivalents in writing (see G-d).

Synonyms

 * Allah, Almighty, cosmocrat, Divine Father, G-d, god, Jah, Jehovah, Lord, LORD, Most High, Yahweh, Brahman, Ahura Mazda, Ra, Waheguru, Sage, Odin, Zeus.

Saturn
"Saturday is the day of Saturn, and the color of Saturn, according to astronomers, is said to be black".

Recent history
The recent history period dates from around 1,000 b2k to present.

The Franco-Flemish painting on the right has God the Father with a halo, dated to circa 1380 (620 b2k).

On the left is the frontispiece "of Riccioli's 1651 New Almagest. [In it mythological] figures observe the heavens with a telescope and weigh the heliocentric theory of Copernicus in a balance against his modified version of Tycho Brahe's geo-heliocentric system, in which the Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth while Mercury, Venus, and Mars orbit the Sun. The old Ptolemaic geocentric theory lies discarded on the ground, made obsolete by the telescope's discoveries. These are illustrated at top and include phases of Venus and Mercury and a surface feature on Mars (left), moons of Jupiter, rings of Saturn, and features on the moon (right). The balance tips in favor of Riccioli's "Tychonic" system."

In the second image down on the right, God the Father has a dark halo. Dated circa 4th quarter of the 15th century (1475-1500, 525-500 b2k).

The third image down on the right is dated circa 1480-1490 (520-510 b2k) with God the Father having an apparent halo in white.

The second figure on the left contains Huygens Systema Saturnium. The top diagram shows how Saturn's appearance to us changes due the changing positions of the Earth (E) and Saturn as they orbit the Sun (G). The bottom portion contains Huygens observation of Saturn presenting its rings to us at their greatest inclination. Both parts date from 1659, 341 b2k.

In the fourth image down on the right, Michelangelo painted God in white with some green nearby, dated to 1508-1512 (492-588 b2k).

The fifth image down on the right has God the Father painted in white by Ludovico Mazzolino, dated to from 1510 until 1520 (490-480 b2k). The halo is gone but it appears a bald head replaces the disk of Saturn.

The third page down on the left is dated to 1661, 339 b2k, and describes the theory of Ptolemy.

The sixth image down on the right dated to circa 1635-1640 has God the Father with a whitish bald head partially surrounded with whitish hair.

The fourth page on the left is a chart of the Solar System up to the orbit of the planet Saturn. The tracks of three comets are indicated, which appeared in the years 1662, 1680 and 1682, respectively. The page is dated to 1727, 273 b2k.

During the High Middle Ages, theology was therefore the ultimate subject at universities, being named "The Queen of the Sciences" and serving as the capstone to the Trivium and Quadrivium that young men were expected to study. This meant that the other subjects (including Philosophy) existed primarily to help with theological thought.

Hypotheses

 * 1) Religion in the northern hemisphere of Earth has its origins in celestial events that killed hominins.
 * 2) There were no celestial deities in the southern hemisphere except in those cultures that also crossed the equator into the northern hemisphere or were invaded and conquered by northern hemisphere peoples.

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Draft:Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument.

"Philosophy is a study of problems which are ultimate, abstract and general. These problems are concerned with the nature of existence, knowledge, morality, reason and human purpose."

"The aim of philosophical inquiry is to gain insight into questions about knowledge, truth, reason, reality, meaning, mind, and value."

Theory of philosophy
"Philosophy is rationally critical thinking, of a more or less systematic kind about the general nature of the world (metaphysics or theory of existence), the justification of belief (epistemology or theory of knowledge), and the conduct of life (ethics or theory of value). Each of the three elements in this list has a non-philosophical counterpart, from which it is distinguished by its explicitly rational and critical way of proceeding and by its systematic nature. Everyone has some general conception of the nature of the world in which they live and of their place in it. Metaphysics replaces the unargued assumptions embodied in such a conception with a rational and organized body of beliefs about the world as a whole. Everyone has occasion to doubt and question beliefs, their own or those of others, with more or less success and without any theory of what they are doing. Epistemology seeks by argument to make explicit the rules of correct belief formation. Everyone governs their conduct by directing it to desired or valued ends. Ethics, or moral philosophy, in its most inclusive sense, seeks to articulate, in rationally systematic form, the rules or principles involved."

Def.

 * 1) a written work, or academic discipline, “that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism”
 * 2) a "love of wisdom"
 * 3) a "comprehensive system of belief"
 * 4) a "view or outlook [regarding fundamental principles underlying] of some other domain" is called a philosophy.

Philosophy is often [generally] "divided into five major subtopics [branches]: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics."

Definition theory
“[D]efinitions are always of symbols, for only symbols have meanings for definitions to explain.” A term can be one or more of a set of symbols such as words, phrases, letter designations, or any already used symbol or new symbol.

In the theory of definition, “the symbol being defined is called the definiendum, and the symbol or set of symbols used to explain the meaning of the definiendum is called the definiens.” “The definiens is not the meaning of the definiendum, but another symbol or group of symbols which, according to the definition, has the same meaning as the definiendum.”

Def. "[t]he term - word or phrase - defined in a definition" is called a definiendum.

Def. "[t]he word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition" is called a definiens.

Semantics
Def.
 * 1. "the study of meanings:"
 * 1.a: "the historical and psychological study and the classification of changes in the signification of words or forms viewed as factors in linguistic development",
 * 1.b: "a branch of semiotic dealing with the relations between signs and what they refer to and including theories of denotation, extension, naming, and truth"
 * 2.a: "the meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign or set of signs; [especially]: connotative meaning"
 * 2.b: "the exploitation of connotation and ambiguity (as in propaganda)"

is called semantics.

Def. "the branch of linguistics devoted to the investigation of linguistic meaning, the interpretation of expression in a language system." is called semantics.

Starting with universals and ontology, where the word "semantics" is in category 543. MEANING, a definition of semantics using concepts from categories lower in number than 543 may be as follows:

Def. the knowledge of the nature of ideas transferred among entities is called semantics.

Every word after Def. and before "is called" has its most popular category of usage less than 543.

Impredicative definitions
Def. "definable only in terms of a totality of which it is itself a part" is called impredicative.

"When a set M and a particular object m are so defined that on the one hand m is a member of M, and on the other hand the definition of m depends on M, we say that the procedure (or the definition of m, or the definition of M) is impredicative. Similarly, when a property P is possessed by an object m whose definition depends on P (here M is the set of the objects which possess the property P). An impredicative definition is circular, at least on its face, as what is defined participates in its own definition."

Finite definability
Richard's paradox (1905), "substantially given by Dixon 1906, deals with the notion of finite definability."

"For definiteness, let this refer to a given language, say the English language with a preassigned alphabet, dictionary and grammar. The alphabet we may take as consisting of the blank space (to separate words), the 26 Latin letters, and the comma. By an 'expression' in the language we may understand simply any finite sequence of these 28 symbols not beginning with a blank space. The expressions in the English language can then be enumerated by the device [...] of the matrix [which] constitutes a general one for enumerating [...] algebraic equations [such as] a pairing between members of two collections or 'sets' of objects [called] a one-to-one (1-1) correspondence."

Consider "the function whose value, for any given natural number as argument, is equal to one more than the value, for the given natural number as argument, of the function defined by the expression which corresponds to the given natural number in the last described enumeration".

"In the [above] quoted expression we refer to the above described enumeration of the expressions in the English language defining a number-theoretic function, without defining it. But we could easily have written in the definition of that enumeration in full, as part of the quoted expression. We should then have before us a definition of a function (briefly, the function fn(n) + 1), by an expression in the English language. This function, by its definition, must differ from every function definable by an expression in the English language."

Consider, "the least natural number not nameable in fewer than twenty-two syllables". "This expression names in twenty-one syllables a natural number which by definition cannot be named in fewer than twenty-two syllables! (Berry 1906)."

Logic
Def.

 * a(1): "a science that deals with the canons and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the normative formal principles of reasoning"
 * (2): "a branch of semiotic; [especially: syntactics]"
 * (3): "the formal principles of a branch of knowledge"
 * b: "a particular mode of reasoning"
 * c: "interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable"

is called logic.

Similar to the above dictionary, or lexical, definition is

Def. logic "is the study of correct argumentation."

Def. a "method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step pattern [manner] about how a problem can be solved" is called logic.

Def. the "study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration" is called logic.

Def. the "mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements" is called logic.

Def. a "formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics" is called logic.

Def. any "system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person" is called logic.

Metaphysics
Def. the "branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being " is called metaphysics.

Epistemology
Def. the "branch of philosophy dealing with" the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?" is called epistemology.

Ethics
Def. the "study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct" or the "standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession" is called ethics.

Usage notes

"Although the terms ethics and morality may sometimes be used interchangeably, philosophical ethicists often distinguish them, using ethics to refer to theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong, and using morality and its related terms to refer to actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct." "In this vein, the American philosopher Brand Blanshard wrote concerning his friend, the eminent British ethicist G. E. Moore:" "We often discussed ethics, but seldom morals.... He was a master in ethical theory, but did not conceive himself as specially qualified to pass opinions on politics or social issues."

Aesthetics
Def. the "study or philosophy of beauty" is called aesthetics.

Continental philosophy
"Continental philosophy is a term used in philosophy to designate one of two major contemporary "traditions" of current Western philosophy. It is so named to distinguish it from analytic philosophy, because, at the time when this, so-called, "Schism between Analytic and Continental Philosophy" first occurred (in the mid-twentieth century), continental philosophy was the dominant style of philosophy in continental Europe, while analytical philosophy was the predominant style in the English-speaking world and in Scandinavia. Continental philosophy is generally agreed to include phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism, deconstruction, French feminism, critical theory such as that of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard, and most branches of Marxism and Marxist philosophy (though there also exists a self-described Analytical Marxism)."

Dominant group
“The dominant group in educational philosophy, if one is to judge by the lists of set texts and required readings at English-speaking universities, is the School of Philosophical Analysis represented by Richard S. Peters, Paul H. Hirst, and Michael Oakeshott, with their American contemporaries Israel Scheffler, William R. Perry, and others who are cited in Chapter 7. Deconstruction, Critical Theory and Post-Modernism figure in Chapters 10 and 12, with scandinavian thinkers from Kierkegaard to Bohr in Chapter 11.”

"But, in Western societies, when litigation does take place, the plaintiff is unable to be heard because the regulation of the conflict takes place in the idiom of one party-the economically dominant group."

Universals
"When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals."

Hypotheses

 * 1) Philosophers work on unanswerable questions.

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School:Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship involves taking actions that earn money and that create changes in society related to those actions. The changes can be positive or negative. It is best if they are positive, ethical, legal and help to all humans (see /discussion about the definition of entrepreneurship/)

Welcome!
Welcome to the School of Entrepreneurship, part of the Practical Arts and Sciences

Entrepreneurship
Innovative and creative person or a pathway to Self-Employment

The entrepreneur is popularly defined as the person who assumes the risks and costs associated with starting one's own business. This general view is not accepted by many scholars. According to the critics, the person who comes to grief if the business fails, is the fund supplying capitalist (or the financer) who has to bear the losses, so the entrepreneurs, with little investment in the venture, won't bear much of the risk. The concept of entrepreneurship is also generally thought to be similar to the concept of self-employment. The two are synonymous in the sense that persons who are entrepreneurs and those who are self-employed take responsibility to pay themselves rather than work for fixed wages determined by employers. As such both the entrepreneur and the self-employed hope to determine how much they are paid and to control their working hours the structure of their work. In fact, as most of the entrepreneurs would also agree, the main function of the entrepreneurs is to innovate. Now, innovation is not Invention or R&D type of things. Innovation, among other things, would mean commercial application of an idea. It is not difficult to innovate, though it requires a bit of practice and mental training. For example, suggest some design modifications for a pen so that it can be used in a use other than writing! We may put some memory chip into it and it becomes an identification pen, or if we print short messages on it, it becomes an effective advertising media. Can you suggest more? In simple training session with undergraduate students in India (Chandigarh) some 1000 modifications were identified. Go on, suggest some more and get a feel of an entrepreneur in making.

Who is the Entrepreneur?
Who is the self-employed person?

The entrepreneur is a responsible person that decides to take charge of his or her own life and ideas, and secondly the life and ideas of others. He or she is the person who identifies what people need or might need to make them more comfortable and decide to take on the responsibility to serve those needs.

The entrepreneur is the person that seizes the opportunity to serve others, despite the dangers and the risks associated with serving people's needs, including their unidentified ones.

The entrepreneur decides to use his or her life and ideas or a portion of his or her life and ideas to ensure that other persons get what they need or get what will make their life more comfortable and happy as they live on earth.

 * From the SBA
 * www.business.gov/phases/launching/are_you_ready/glossary.html

Learning resources

 * Internet entrepreneurship
 * Social entrepreneurship
 * Business

Courses

 * Conservation Entrepreneurship
 * Innovative Entrepreneurship (LiU)

Start Ups: How To
Restaurants, coffee shops, bars, a massage practice, fashion designing, performance arts, and many other similar businesses are seen as a fulfilling enterprises for the many would-be entrepreneurs around the world. They are popular because they involve hobbies where enthusiasts already spend much of their spare time learning and practicing. For instance, the dream of starting a restaurant is shared by many food lovers who cook frequently for their families, friends, and community. If the proper steps are taken, an amateur cook can become a professional chef. Below is a list of entrepreneurial categories that link to step-by-step pages about how to turn one's craft into a prosperous start up enterprise. (please add to this list of start-up businesses)

Food and Drinks
 * Coffee
 * Bar(alcohol)
 * Dining
 * Fast food
 * Street vendor
 * Health food/drink
 * Seasonal food/drink
 * Catering
 * Delivery

Craftsmanship, Entertainment and Services Professional
 * Massage
 * Handmade products
 * Health and fitness training
 * Visual arts
 * Music
 * Theatrical and performance arts
 * Pet services
 * Cleaning and maintenance
 * Accounting and financial services
 * Health Care
 * Legal Services
 * Consulting

Education and Community Online
 * Children(general)
 * Seniors(general)
 * Families(general)
 * Awareness and fund raising
 * Seasonal activities
 * Event planning
 * Charity
 * Technical support
 * Developer
 * E-commerce
 * Blogging and niche' websites
 * Affiliate Marketing

Local Learning Projects
Lunar Boom Town is a multidisciplinary activity where engineers, business people, and space enthusiasts can hone their applicable skills investigating generic business models and industrial processes applicable to near term lunar settlements. If technical data is required there to complete a business planning activity seek assistance at the appropriate technical school or other participants discussion page.

School News

 * May 1, 2007 - Start-Up Business Financing content available
 * August 21, 2006 - School founded!

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better (for large schools it is not needed).

 * Since 30 November 2013 with Funding and my own business since March 1992! Bringing the Future into the Present! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 05:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Things you can do!

 * Clean up Draft:Economics and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Funding and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Gift economy and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Insider trading and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Laws and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Monopolistic practices and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Repellor vehicles and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

Wikimedia

 * List of venture capital firms

"The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job." (Michael Gerber)

Entrepreneurship Education

 * Babson College
 * University of Waterloo - Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
 * Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

In US

 * New Hampshire Virtual Business Incubator
 * SCORE

In UK

 * Bizhelp24
 * Business Link
 * British Chambers of Commerce
 * Bytestart
 * Clearly Business
 * Companies House
 * National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
 * Small Business Ideas
 * Small business advice service
 * Smarta
 * Small Business Service
 * Startups.co.uk
 * Your Business Service
 * SmallBusiness.co.uk

Bank Links/Business Angels/Other Financing

 * Barclays Business Banking
 * British Business Angels Association
 * British Venture Capital Association
 * Cooperative Bank Business Banking
 * European Venture Capital Association
 * HSBC Business Banking
 * Grant database
 * Lloyds TSB Business Banking
 * Natwest Business Banking
 * NESTA
 * Prince's Trust
 * Royal Bank of Scotland Business Banking

Business Plans

 * Teneric Business Plans
 * Business Plan Services
 * Startbusiness.co.uk
 * Readyplanning.com
 * DIYBizPlan.com

IT Support

 * Sage Startup
 * Technology Means Business
 * Droisys - The on Demand Technology Services Company

Interviews with Entrepreneurs
About their Lessons Learned and Advice for Other Entrepreneurs
 * Startup Studio

Marketing

 * New2Marketing.com
 * BizAmmo: Marketing

Intellectual Property

 * The UK Patent Office
 * Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

Ideas

 * Springwise-Entrepreneurial Ideas

Buy a business

 * Business-Sale.com

Franchising

 * British Franchising
 * Canadian Franchising

News

 * Business 2.0
 * Entrepreneur
 * inc.com
 * Growth Business
 * Red Herring
 * Telegraph Business Club
 * The Times Business
 * List of trade magazines
 * Forbes

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School talk:Entrepreneurship

Looking through all the of the College of Practical Arts and Sciences pages, it struck me as odd that this school only has links to resources, no sort of introduction or course structure, and no one to contact about creation of content. It would be my suggestion that this page be erased/modified from being a school of the college to a wikipage unless someone rescues it and wants to teach some classes in the subject. --Kfitton 01:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There is an active learning project, Lunar Boom Town, where entrepreneurs of all levels can practice skills in developing business plans. Mirwin 20:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Entrepreneurship development using cultural inputs.
I have been working upon the training of entrepreneurs in India using the inputs from Indian culture. Has anybody tried it in other regions? I am open to the idea of starting a new course on entrepreneurship development using cultural/ social inputs and using oriental knowledge along with latest learning techniques. Do I have the support of world community especially the entrepreneurs who could contribute by shiring their experience and learnigs? this way you can contribute to the society.

Prof. Vivek Sharma, Chandigarh, India

Yes, I fully agree. Such a school will be a great learning experience. Jennifer
 * Please let me know if some more like-minded people are willing to invest time and energy in starting a new program for entrepreneurship development. Pl mail me at profvsharma@yahoo.co.uk about your support for this project on wikiversity as an international project.Those who think that it will be a useful project/ they would like to join/share their experience/ contribute in any other way pl. also mail.

 * Prof. Vivek Sharma

 * Your request may get better response if you register an account and request wiki participants to open a dialogue on your user talk page. Also, if you select your options to provide it there is an email relay system built in to the wikimedia software we use.  Many wiki participants are a bit leery of handing out their email addresses.  Personally I think such a course at Wikiversity would be lovely and would grow slowly at first and then faster as the community enters exponential internet growth.  Mirwin 20:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Could be perhaps this user ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 13:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

i invite everyone interested in sharing experience and promoting entrepreneurship to contact me via my talk page. Vivek --Prof. Vivek Sharma 12:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Hello professor Vivek Sharma. I work as a system developer in the Netherlands and in 2011 I started the Dutch wikiversity. I think in this information/ knowledge intensive world you can also learn about entrepreneurship when participating in learning projects. You don't have to set up a business right away. You can participate on wikimedia projects and learn how to create knowledge, how to collaborate, etc. An example is project RuralWeb: free laptop. In this project African an Dutch people are working together with the aim to get laptops in five African schools. I learned a lot about entrepreneurship in this project. If it's possible I'd like to get in contact, so we can share some of our experiences. I will send you an e-mail. Cheers, Tim Ruijters, Timboliu (discuss • contribs) 07:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

MyWikiBiz
Perhaps we should link to MyWikiBiz... it is a site for commercial self promotion (unless I have misunderstood the premise). Emesee 21:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

i certainly do not want to get any kind of commercial benefit out of it. I am willing to contribute my time and expertise free of cost to this school if i am guided how to go about it. my idea is to register some participants as co- learners, who will learn from various online free resources, perform some activities at their respective places and in the end, if possible get some certification for their work. i request the wikiversity community to help me by sharing of experience and information on the subject and pl. feel free to contact me via my talk page. --Prof. Vivek Sharma 13:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC) Vivek Sharma

Michael Gerber quote
I would like to shorten the following quote: "The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job." (Michael Gerber) to "The entrepreneur builds an enterprise" (Michael Gerber). My reasoning is this: many small businesses are started by plumbers, carpenters, painters, exterminators, and many other "technicians" who learn a trade, become good at it, and decide to start their own business. These are technicians who take the next step to become entrepreneurs. Incidentally, technicians do not build jobs, they practice trades like a physician practices medicine, then opens her/his own practice. Comments and criticisms welcome. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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Feel free to add-I just started it and it needs a lot of help.

I just added the Nicene Creed to the page, but it just got taken off. I will probrobly create a seperate page for it. I will keep helping with the page. Glad to help.

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Portal talk:Anthropology

VOTING
Wikiversity is being voted on right now. At the time of writing yes on Wikiversity is in the lead, but the margin is slender. Plese vote yes on Wikiversity.

Ideas
Why not have a course on the anthropology of the internet, and wikipedia in paticular.

>> Here are some topical communities within wikipedia : Wikiprojects. The Dispute_resolution ritual is fascinating, in that it's all written on user Talk pages, as, a large chalkboard. Or maybe it's just interesting. It at least, demonstrates peer review and institution-hierarchy. Downchuck 08:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Eventually, the International Cultural Anthropology community will be aware of the Wikipedia, and the Wikiversity project. We can certainly make it easier -- a short introduction prefacing a series of practice/descriptions of what wikimedia provides/could-provide to the field of cultural anthropology. Downchuck 08:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Doubtful organisation...
I find the notion of combining the subtopics of anthro into one course a rather dubious one...I suspect the enormity of the task somewhat explains why the 'course page' contains largely a bunch of headings and good intentions rather than an actual course...it seems more sensible to present courses on each subfield rather than expecting that any one course could possibly encompass all subfields (most especially given all the subfields within all the subfields)...
 * Are you referring to the Introduction to Anthropology course page? While I agree that it is fairly pathetic at present, because it aims only to be an introduction to each of these subfields, it should be the most completable of tasks presently before this School.  Furthermore, it is perhaps one of the most deserving of attention, as it is the avenue by which newcomers to the discipline can be most easily introduced to its diversity and brought up to speed on its otherwise dizzying variety of core concepts.  What is more, while it is likely that few of our contributing experts will have been trained in the same subdiscipline, it is almost certain that they will have all taken pretty much the same 100 level Intro Anthro course. --Lordcorvid 16:14, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Or were you referring to the Department of General Anthropology, because that certainly seems foolhardy, and I support the proposed merge. --Lordcorvid 16:21, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

On another note, while I respect the huge amount of original research that Cgnk has obviously done, I am extremely skeptical that it deserves to be distinguished with its own department and status rivaling the established and reputable subdisciplines. To do so greatly undermines the validity of this school and Wikiversity in general. --Lordcorvid 16:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Related Department
Hi all, I am a involved with the School of History and I am presently starting up a Department of Historiography. Historiography is the study of how history is practiced. I was wondering if it would at all be possible to place a 'Related Schools/Departments' on your School page. I presently have a similar page on my departmental page, and have included Anthropology. I have included Anthropology because it is a main aspect of any historians research. Many historians use Anthropological evdience in their writings. If you could place a link to my department on your main page that would be great. Thanks again. Here is the link to my department Department of Historiography Dctrainor 19:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

cultural natural selection
Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows - sort of interesting. --Remi 02:47, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Activity at Wikipedia
Hi. There are a few people working on Anthropology-related articles right now at Wikipedia. (I've mostly just been tweaking templates and poking around, but there are a few experts beavering away..) We're in the process of developing an outline list at Outline of anthropology, and are reworking the navbox w:Template:Anthropology. Also I added the WVS template to the Anthropology article, so you might start getting some traffic via that. Perhaps it might be useful for us both to develop these together, and share work with each other. Just thought I'd mention it. :) Quiddity 05:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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