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Who was the general who spoke out against the USSR joining NATO?
Hastings Ismay
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To what did the British general compare the USSR in his opposition to their joining NATO?
burglar
[ "Warsaw_Pact\n\nAgain all proposals, including the request to join NATO, were rejected by UK, US, and French governments shortly after. Emblematic was the position of British General Hastings Ismay, supporter of NATO expansion, who said that NATO \"must grow until the whole free world gets under one umbrella.\" He ...
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In what year did Konrad Adenauer first visit the United States?
1954
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Which NATO country feared a unified and rearmed Germany?
France
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In which year was West Germany admitted to NATO?
1954
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Halvard Lange was a minister of which NATO member?
Norway
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In which month of 1955 was this pact declared?
May
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Which nation was permitted rearmament by the foundation of the Warsaw Pact?
East Germany
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What was the name of the East German armed forces?
the National People's Army
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How many countries formed the initial Warsaw Pact membership?
eight
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In which year did Mongolia seek entry in the Warsaw Pact?
1963
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In which year were Soviet forces scheduled to leave Mongolia?
1966
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What was the focus of both alliances' policies towards the other in lieu of direct fighting?
containment
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Which continent was considered to be at the center of NATO/Warsaw Pact intrigues?
Europe
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In which year did Hungary attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact?
1956
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Who was the head of the Hungarian government at the time of the revolt?
Imre Nagy
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In which year was the Warsaw Pact activated in a joint action?
1968
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Which country did the Pact conquer?
Czechoslovakia
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In which country did Warsaw Pact officials meet to dissolve the alliance?
Hungary
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In which year did Romania overthrow its communist government?
1989
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For how many years did the Warsaw Pact formally exist?
36
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Which former Eastern Bloc country was the latest to join NATO?
Albania
[ "Warsaw_Pact\n\nOn 12 March 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia joined in March 2004; Albania joined on 1 April 2009." ]
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In which year did Poland join NATO?
1999
[ "Warsaw_Pact\n\nOn 12 March 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia joined in March 2004; Albania joined on 1 April 2009." ]
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In which year did Slovakia join NATO?
2004
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In which year did Poland declassify most of its Warsaw Pact-era archives?
2005
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How many documents remain classified?
70
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What was the name of the Warsaw Pact's planned counteroffensive to a NATO first strike?
Seven Days to the River Rhine
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How many nuclear weapons were eventually housed in Poland?
250
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In which year was the counteroffensive strategy first conceived?
1979
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What is materialism?
a form of philosophical monism
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In nature, this is an essential substance?
matter
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What are some examples of philosophical physicalism?
spacetime, physical energies and forces, dark matter
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Some people consider physicalism to be synonymous with what?
Materialism
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What class does materialism belong to?
monist ontology
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What is the first question to ask in order to define the two classes?
"what does reality consist of?"
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What is the second question to ask in order to define the two classes?
"how does it originate?"
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An idealist considers what as the most important?
spirit or mind or the objects of mind (ideas)
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A materialist considers what as the most important?
matter
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Was René Descartes an idealist or a materialist?
materialist
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Materialism does not define what?
how material substance should be characterized.
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What type of materialism defined the Marxist philosophy?
dialectical materialism
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Who coined the Axial Age?
Karl Jaspers
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In what part of the world did materialism develop during the Axial Age?
Eurasia
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Around what time did materialism become part of Ancient Indian philosophy?
600 BC
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At that time, who helped develop materialism?
Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada, and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy
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What school advanced atomism?
Nyaya–Vaisesika school
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Between what years did the school advance atomism?
600 BC - 100 BC
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Materialism is linked to what?
reductionism
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De Rerum Natura is a poem by who?
Lucretius
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What kinf of explanation does De Rerum Natura provide for phenomena?
mechanistic explanations
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Name the title of the work by Jayaraashi Bhatta.
Tattvopaplavasimha ("The upsetting of all principles")
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Which type of philosphy did not continue after 1400?
materialistic Cārvāka philosophy
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What is Sarva-darśana-samgraha?
a digest of all philosophies
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Who wrote the Sarva-darśana-samgraha?
Madhavacharya
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What is the name of the novel written by Ibn Tufail?
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus)
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Pierre Gassendi lived from what year to what year?
1592-1665
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René Descartes lived from what year to what year?
1596-1650
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abbé Jean Meslier lived from what year to what year?
1664-1729
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Denis Diderot lived from what year to what year?
1713-1784
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William Wordsworth lived from what year to what year?
1770-1850
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Arthur Schopenhauer lived from what year to what year?
1788-1860
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What did he say that the brain would decide?
how material objects will be experienced or perceived
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Who wrote "The Essence of Christianity"?
Ludwig Feuerbach
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In what year was "The Essence of Christianity" written?
1841
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What did the author of "The Essence of Christianity" consider religion to be?
the outward projection of man's inward nature
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The author's ideas would later influence what well known philosopher?
Karl Marx
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In regards to the mind, what are 3 theories that modern day philosophers try to harmonize?
functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory
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What is hyle?
matter
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Relativity illustrates that what is interchangeable?
matter and energy
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Ontological theory suggests that what is the main substance?
energy
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Quantum field theory suggest what is the main substance?
fields
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Which model suggests that matter is 5% of the universe?
Lambda-CDM model
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What type of matter does the model consider it to be?
dark matter
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Werner Heisenberg suggested that atoms are not what?
things
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What are some of the findings that support their argument?
quantum mechanics and chaos theory.
[ "Materialism\n\nSome modern day physicists and science writers—such as Paul Davies and John Gribbin—have argued that materialism has been disproven by certain scientific findings in physics, such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory. In 1991, Gribbin and Davies released their book The Matter Myth, the first chapte...
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What is the name of the 1991 book by Paul Davies and John Gribbins?
The Matter Myth
[ "Materialism\n\nSome modern day physicists and science writers—such as Paul Davies and John Gribbin—have argued that materialism has been disproven by certain scientific findings in physics, such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory. In 1991, Gribbin and Davies released their book The Matter Myth, the first chapte...
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Digital physicists consider what to be more important than matter?
information
[ "Materialism\n\nDavies' and Gribbin's objections are shared by proponents of digital physics who view information rather than matter to be fundamental. Their objections were also shared by some founders of quantum theory, such as Max Planck, who wrote:" ]
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Based on the above definition, materialism is not consistent with what?
religions
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Neoplatonism describes divinity as what?
simple, immaterial, formless, substance/essence (ousia) that transcended all that was physical
[ "Materialism\n\nIn contrast, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, taught: \"There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all m...
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Which religious group strongly opposed the idea of Neoplatonism?
Christians
[ "Materialism\n\nIn contrast, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, taught: \"There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all m...
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If you believe in idealism, you are disbeliving in what?
materialism
[ "Materialism\n\nAn argument for idealism, such as those of Hegel and Berkeley, is ipso facto an argument against materialism. Matter can be argued to be redundant, as in bundle theory, and mind-independent properties can in turn be reduced to subjective percepts. Berkeley presents an example of the latter by pointi...
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What 3 types of philosophies attempt to correct the problem with matter and energy without removing every belief about materialism?
Emergence, holism, and process philosophy
[ "Materialism\n\nIf matter and energy are seen as necessary to explain the physical world, but incapable of explaining mind, dualism results. Emergence, holism, and process philosophy seek to ameliorate the perceived shortcomings of traditional (especially mechanistic) materialism without abandoning materialism enti...
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Instead of faith, John Polkinghorne relies on what when it comes to the theory of materialism?
dual-aspect monism
[ "Materialism\n\nSome critics object to materialism as part of an overly skeptical, narrow or reductivist approach to theorizing, rather than to the ontological claim that matter is the only substance. Particle physicist and Anglican theologian John Polkinghorne objects to what he calls promissory materialism — clai...
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What is a person who follows Christianity called?
Christian
[ "Christian\n\nA Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. \"Christian\" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach." ]
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Whose life do Christians learn from?
Jesus Christ
[ "Christian\n\nA Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. \"Christian\" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach." ]
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What Greek word is Christian derived from?
Christós
[ "Christian\n\nA Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. \"Christian\" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach." ]
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Christós is translated from what Biblical term?
mashiach
[ "Christian\n\nA Christian ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. \"Christian\" derives from the Koine Greek word Christós (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach." ]
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While many, the perceptions of Christianity can sometimes what?
conflict
[ "Christian\n\nThere are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, \"Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance.\" The term \"Christian\" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Chri...
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Regardless of beliefs, Christians all agree that Jesus has a unique what?
significance
[ "Christian\n\nThere are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, \"Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance.\" The term \"Christian\" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Chri...
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Whether one partakes in practices or beliefs, the label Christian is sometimes attached because they associate with what?
the cultural aspects of Christianity
[ "Christian\n\nThere are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict. However, \"Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance.\" The term \"Christian\" is also used adjectivally to describe anything associated with Chri...
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According to one report, how many Christians were in the world in 2010?
2.2 billion
[ "Christian\n\nAccording to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest ...
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How many Christians were in the world in 1910?
600 million
[ "Christian\n\nAccording to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest ...
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If growth continues as it has, what religion will be the largest in the world by 2050?
Christianity
[ "Christian\n\nAccording to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest ...
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Of all the Christians in the world, how many are Catholic?
half
[ "Christian\n\nToday, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, and about 26% live in Europe, 24% of total Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% of the world's Christians live in the Middle east and North Africa. About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, ...
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Christians are the majority in how many countries and territories in the world today?
158
[ "Christian\n\nToday, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, and about 26% live in Europe, 24% of total Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% of the world's Christians live in the Middle east and North Africa. About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, ...
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What Greek word defines as "follower of Christ?"
Χριστιανός (Christianos)
[ "Christian\n\nThe Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning \"follower of Christ\", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning \"anointed one\", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate th...
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Where does the Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos) come from?
Χριστός (Christos)
[ "Christian\n\nThe Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning \"follower of Christ\", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning \"anointed one\", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate th...
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What does Χριστός (Christos) mean?
anointed one
[ "Christian\n\nThe Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning \"follower of Christ\", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning \"anointed one\", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate th...
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What is the French word for Christian that was derived from Greek?
Chrétien
[ "Christian\n\nThe Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning \"follower of Christ\", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning \"anointed one\", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate th...
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Where is the first reference to the word Christian in the Bible?
Acts 11:26
[ "Christian\n\nThe first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11:26, after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: \"[...] the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.\" The second men...