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  • 21sum|ma|ry — «SUHM uhr ee», noun, plural ries, adjective. –n. a brief statement giving the main points or substance of a matter; epitome; abstract; abridgment: »This history book has a summary at the end of each chapter. ╂[< Latin summārium < summa sum… …

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  • 22sum — (n.) late 13c., quantity or amount of money, from Anglo Fr. and O.Fr. summe (13c.), from L. summa total number, whole, essence, gist, noun use of fem. of summus highest, from PIE *sup mos , from root *uper over (see SUPER (Cf. super )). The sense …

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  • 23substance — [n1] entity, element actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, concreteness, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing; concepts… …

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  • 24the long and short — phrasal or the long and the short : the sum and substance : gist : whole …

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  • 25sum — sumless, adj. sumlessness, n. /sum/, n., v., summed, summing. n. 1. the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14. 2. a… …

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  • 26sum — 1. noun /sʌm/ a) A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. The sum of 3 and 4 is 7. b) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition.) a tidy sum …

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  • 27Substance monotheism — the view that there is one or more gods or goddesses.[13] More specifically, it may also mean the belief in God, a god, or gods, who is/are actively involved in maintaining the Universe. A theist can also take the position that he does not have… …

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  • 28Sum of Logic — The Summa Logicae is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham. It was written around 1323.Systematically, it resembles other works of medieval logic, organised under the basic headings of the Aristotelian Predicables, Categories, terms,… …

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  • 29Tsui Ming-sum — Dr. Ming sum TSUI, an associate professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has 25 years of experience in practising and teaching social work supervision. Before joining the Hong Kong… …

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  • 30Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …

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