Wales, a financial trader turned Internet entrepreneur, and Larry Sanger, a freshly minted philosophy PhD, started the site to boost Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia started by Wales that relied on contributions from experts. After a year, Nupedia offered a strange collection of only 13 ...
George Orwell'sAnimal Farmis an example of a political satire and an allegory that was intended to have a "wider application", according to Orwell himself, in terms of its relevance.[42] Stylistically, the work shares many similarities with some of Orwell's other works, most notablyNineteen ...
Wales’ surface proclivity for charity work clashes with his outspoken adherence to the Objectivist “philosophy” of Ayn Rand, which venerates individualism to the point of selfishness and bows to an absolute, inflexible rationality. Wales’ first wife, Pamela, told W he had actively discouraged he...
Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is to come": Heaven) atop Mount Zion. Christian is weighed down by a great burden—the...
This brings up another point I discussed extensively in some essays which formerly appeared at my Wikipedia user space: the firmly entrenched WP political philosophy is avowedly populist rather than scholarly. While populism has many attractive features (such as the idea that all persons are endowed...
I like to condense my games into very few principle rules, which hopefully are so intuitive that you have guidance on how to play. Then the people themselves become the acting part on the platform to actually bring their philosophy about how to approach the game into strategy, and that makes...
Even though this doctrine seems like a significant departure from modern legal thought, it has its basis in the political philosophy of John Locke, whose writings on liberty heavily influenced the British and American legal system. According to Locke, individuals in an anarchy would be able to ...
Someone proved that if you go 17 articles deep, you always end up at a specific page, IIRC, it's philosophy. Sith Warriors - They only class that gets a new room added to their ship after leaving Hoth, they get a Brooncloset Einstein said Everything is Relative. Heisenberg said Every...
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===Religion and philosophy=== …… 可以发现,文件的结构特征很明显,查询不同模块的信息只需 要找到相应模块的关键字即可,比如要查询历史信息,只需要匹配 到==History==一般问题就不大了。当然,相对比较纠结一点的 是获取 introduction,需要准确定位到它上面那个“}}”, InfoBox 里面一般还嵌套有“{{ }}”,所...