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101Golestan — (Gulistan) by Sa’di (1258) SA’DI of Shiraz composed the second of his major works, Golestan (The Rose Garden), in Shiraz after a 30 year career as a traveling scholar. Part of a longstanding Persian literature of advice and moral counsel,… …
102Marxist — Synonyms and related words: Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Communist sympathizer, Cong, Fabian, Fabian socialist, Fenian, Fourierist, Guevarist, Jacobin, Jacobinic, Leninist,… …
103realist — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, commonsense, commonsense philosopher, cosmotheistic, dialectical materialist, down to earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical,… …
104base — A term imported into Marxist discourse on the authority of Karl Marx s reference to a ‘real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness’, which appears in the… …
105ethnomethodology — A sociological approach which emerged out of the breakdown of the so called orthodox consensus in the mid 1960s. The label was coined by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel, who laid the foundations of ethnomethodology as a theory, and as a …
106commonsensible — adjective exhibiting native good judgment arrive home at a reasonable hour commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated • Syn:… …
107naive realism — noun (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived • Syn: ↑realism • Topics: ↑philosophy • Hypernyms: ↑philosophical doctrine, ↑philosophical theory …
108common sense — noun Date: 1726 sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts Synonyms: see sense • commonsense adjective • commonsensible adjective • commonsensical adjective • commonsensica …
109ethnomethodology — noun Date: 1967 a branch of sociology dealing with nonspecialists commonsense understanding of the structure and organization of society • ethnomethodologist noun …
110law of averages — Date: 1874 the commonsense observation that probability influences everyday life so that over the long term the possible outcomes of a repeated event occur with specific frequencies …
