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  2. Cat theory (Deng Xiaoping) - Wikipedia

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    Deng Xiaoping in Beijing (1963). In 1962, Deng Xiaoping, then Vice Premier of China, quoted a Chinese proverb "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or yellow, as long as it catches mice" as an endorsement for the economic reform policy "sanzi yibao (三自一包, "Three selfs, one contract", household plots, rural free markets, self-financing and fixed output quota)".

  3. Matter - Wikipedia

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    For example, a horse eats grass: the horse changes the grass into itself; the grass as such does not persist in the horse, but some aspect of it—its matterdoes. The matter is not specifically described (e.g., as atoms), but consists of whatever persists in the

  4. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Wikipedia

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    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.

  5. Potentiality and actuality - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge [epistēmē], in its being-at-work, is the same as the thing it knows, and while knowledge in potency comes first in time in any one knower, in the whole of things it does not take precedence even in time. This does not mean that at one time it thinks but at another time it does not think, but when separated it is just exactly what it ...

  6. Wikipedia:Saying something doesn't make it so - Wikipedia

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    In regards to sources, no matter how much one believes something, if another editor or editors add cited content which disagrees then you have two options. You may explore the source and demonstrate, if this is the case, that it is not a verifiable or reliable source. This will probably not be an option in most cases.

  7. Apatheism - Wikipedia

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    Apatheism considers the question of the existence or nonexistence of deities to be fundamentally irrelevant in every way that matters. This position should not be understood as a skeptical position in a manner similar to that of, for example, atheists or agnostics who question the existence of deities or whether we can know anything about them.

  8. Absurdism - Wikipedia

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    For example, the claim that our actions today will not matter in a million years does not directly imply that they do not matter today. And similarly, the fact that a process does not reach a meaningful ultimate goal does not entail that the process as a whole is worthless since some parts of the process may contain their justification without ...

  9. Nothing - Wikipedia

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    The void is the opposite of being. It is not-being. On the other hand, there exists something known as an absolute plenum, a space filled with matter, and there can be no motion in a plenum because it is completely full. But, there is not just one monolithic plenum, for existence consists of a multiplicity of plenums.