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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chemistry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Organic chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, composition, mechanisms, and reactions of organic compounds.
Physical chemistry is the study of the physical basis of chemical systems and processes.
All chemical processes are reversible (law of microscopic reversibility) although some processes have such an energy bias, they are essentially irreversible.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chemistry   (2026 words)

  
 Glossary of Terms: Ec
Economics is the science which deals with the objective quasi-natural laws and processes governing the production of commodities, their values and money.
By the mid-1980s, Monetarism was too blunt an instrument to deliver the goods and economists turned away from macroeconomics to microeconomics to get a grip on the processes unleashed by the growing complexity of modern social life.
In their deference to spontaneity in the working-class movement, the economists were against the importance of revolutionary theory and class-consciousness, and instead asserted that socialist ideology could arise out of the spontaneous movement.
www.marxists.org /glossary/terms/e/c.htm   (878 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sacrifice of the Mass
In its denial of the true Divinity of Christ and of every supernatural institution, modern unbelief endeavours, by means of he so-called historico-religious method, to explain the character of the Eucharist and the Eucharist sacrifice as the natural result of a spontaneous process of development in the Christian religion.
In this connection it is interesting to observe how these different and conflicting hypotheses refute one another, with the rather startling result at the end of it all that a new, great, and insoluble problem looms of the investigation.
From the exceedingly high valuation, which the Church places on the Mass as the unbloody Sacrifice of the God-Man, issue, as it were spontaneously all those practical precepts of a positive or a negative nature, which are given in the Rubrics of the Mass, in Canon Law, and in Moral Theology.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10006a.htm   (15766 words)

  
 The Reality Club: One Half Of A Manifesto
Everything we have learned suggests that there are important differences, expressible in completely physical terms-more particularly in terms of statistical physics, between systems that are made and systems systems that arise by a spontaneous process of self-organization.
Both may process information, but they may do so in different ways, so that they are generally able to solve different classes of problems.
You don’t have to be a vitalist to reject this technocratic fantasy, and you don’t have to be a dualist, an anti-mechanist, to reject simplistic visions of some AI utopia just around the corner.
www.edge.org /discourse/jaron_manifesto.html   (9611 words)

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