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  2. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    1579 drawing of the Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades , Rhetorica Christiana. The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Pratītyasamutpāda - Wikipedia

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    The basic principle is that all things (dharmas, phenomena, principles) arise in dependence upon other things. The doctrine includes depictions of the arising of suffering ( anuloma-paṭiccasamuppāda , "with the grain", forward conditionality) and depictions of how the chain can be reversed ( paṭiloma-paṭiccasamuppāda , "against the ...

  4. Chain of events - Wikipedia

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    A chain of events is a number of actions and their effects that are contiguous and linked together that results in a particular outcome. In the physical sciences , chain reactions are a primary example.

  5. Gleipnir - Wikipedia

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    The dwarves made the chain magically from six things in the world (and these things are now missing in the world because they were taken away to be part of the chain) Even though Gleipnir is as thin as a silken ribbon, it is stronger than any iron chain. It was forged by the dwarves in their underground realm of Niðavellir.

  6. Internet of things - Wikipedia

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    According to Lonergan, the term IoT was coined before smart phones, tablets, and devices as we know them today existed, and there is a long list of terms with varying degrees of overlap and technological convergence: Internet of things, Internet of everything (IoE), Internet of goods (supply chain), industrial Internet, pervasive computing ...

  7. Chain of thought - Wikipedia

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    Chain of thought might refer to: a train of thought; chain-of-thought prompting, a technique in natural language processing This page was last edited on 11 ...

  8. As Starbucks changes open-door policy, 5 other things to know ...

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    Here are five other things about the coffee chain that might come as a surprise. Most drinks at Starbucks come in three sizes: "tall," "grande" and "venti," in ascending order. Read On The Fox ...

  9. Determinism - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] The concept is often argued by invoking causal determinism, implying that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. In the case of predeterminism, this chain of events has been pre-established, and human actions cannot interfere with the outcomes of this pre-established chain.