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  2. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    The prominence of the norm: norms that are widely accepted among powerful actors are more likely to be effective [3] Christina Horne argues that the robustness of a norm is shaped by the degree of support for the actors who sanction deviant behaviors; she refers to norms regulating how to enforce norms as "metanorms."

  3. Synonym (taxonomy) - Wikipedia

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    In botany, although a synonym must be a formally accepted scientific name (a validly published name): a listing of "synonyms", a "synonymy", often contains designations that for some reason did not make it as a formal name, such as manuscript names, or even misidentifications (although it is now the usual practice to list misidentifications ...

  4. Conventional wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Evidence-based medicine is a deliberate effort to acknowledge expert opinion (conventional wisdom) and how it coexists with scientific data. Evidence-based medicine acknowledges that expert opinion is "evidence" and plays a role to fill the "gap between the kind of knowledge generated by clinical research studies and the kind of knowledge necessary to make the best decision for individual ...

  5. Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story

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    The model, widely accepted today, is known as the “out of Africa” theory: The distant ancestors of present-day humans living outside of Africa left the continent and spread around the world ...

  6. Slang - Wikipedia

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    The word "gig" to refer to a performance very likely originated well before the 1930s, and remained a common term throughout the 1940s and 1950s before becoming vaguely associated with the hippie slang of the 1960s. The word "gig" is now a widely accepted synonym for a concert, recital, or performance of any type.

  7. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) - Wikipedia

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    The title: When a widely accepted English name, in a modern context, exists for a place, we should use it. This will often be a local name, or one of them; but not always. If the place does not exist anymore, or the article deals only with a place in a period when it held a different name, the widely accepted historical English name should be ...

  8. Pramana - Wikipedia

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    While the number of pramanas varies widely from system to system, many ancient and medieval Indian texts identify six [a] pramanas as correct means of accurate knowledge and to truths: Three central pramanas which are almost universally accepted are perception (Sanskrit: pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), and "word", meaning the testimony of ...

  9. Mahayana - Wikipedia

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    This idea that whatever is "well spoken" is the Buddha's word can be traced to the earliest Buddhist texts, but it is interpreted more widely in Mahāyāna. [153] From the Mahāyāna point of view, a teaching is the "word of the Buddha" because it is in accord with the Dharma, not because it was spoken by a specific individual (i.e. Gautama). [154]