... being a foreigner coming from Christendom, he appeared as a sage, a mentor, a teacher. On the other hand, he was a friend of the Turk, an enemy. In addition to those two, he was distant and weird. His resultant image, therefore, was of somebody alien, unpredictable, unreliable, Protestant. The latter attribution deserves some special attention. In the Bulgarian public mind at the time, words like ... published hard against any contextual use, probably just to fill in some space on the page. From this material the Bulgarian reader could learn only two things: that in lands distant there ...

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... argue that you can influence the thoughts of a person, their beliefs, and their behavior. Although subliminal advertising was made illegal in 1974 by US Federal Communications Commission, subtle, hidden, and blatant forms of subliminal messaging can still be found today. Currently, audio stimuli can be found in commercials, music, and self-help tapes. It is likely those who rely on these ... ...

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... at all. In a sense, I was a created being with no right to an "ego," but if I looked back at my parents and my grandparents and so on back into my most distant ancestors, I had to ask myself where the source of this existence came from. Imagining a world before there were any human beings, I tried to see how the earth and sun and ... ...

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... doubt everything that we believe at three distinctive levels. Firstly, Descartes argues that "from time to time I [he] have found that the senses deceive with respect to barely perceivable and distant objects". In other words, the creditability of the senses with respect to any particular judgment of the external world may turn out to be a mistake. This is a perceptual illusion as ... ...

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... belief that psychology is not only the study of perception and sensation, but also the study of how we function in any given environment. His theories in psychology were more distant from the strict sciences, and paved the way for such psychologists as Sigmund Freud and others whose theoretical foundations existed more in philosophy than science. Both men were major contributors ... ...

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