• Laws of Form (hereinafter LoF) is a book by G. Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. LoF describes...
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  • remains constant. All of the conservation laws listed above are local conservation laws. A local conservation law is expressed mathematically by a continuity...
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  • Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws, which...
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  • Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena...
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  • The laws of thought are fundamental axiomatic rules upon which rational discourse itself is often considered to be based. The formulation and clarification...
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    The laws of thermodynamics are a set of scientific laws which define a group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, that characterize...
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  • G. Spencer-Brown (category Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College)
    – 25 August 2016) was an English polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form. He described himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist...
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  • verified; though in some fields of study such laws are simply postulated as a foundation and assumed. Mathematical laws are somewhere in between: they...
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  • The forms of action were the different procedures by which a legal claim could be made during much of the history of the English common law. Depending...
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  • lawyer and practice law in most jurisdictions, a person must first obtain a law degree. In most common law countries, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) is required...
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  • The Laws of Cricket is a code that specifies the rules of the game of cricket worldwide. The earliest known code was drafted in 1744. Since 1788, the...
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  • An organic law is a law, or system of laws, that form the foundation of a government, corporation or any other organization's body of rules. A constitution...
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    The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. The Corn Laws blocked the import of cheap...
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  • Sharia (redirect from Islamic Laws)
    Islamic law, without specifying the penalties. Some Nigerian states have also enacted Islamic criminal laws. Laws in the Indonesian province of Aceh provide...
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  • Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrence...
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    The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise...
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    to as "Blake–Poretsky laws".[clarification needed] Blake discussed three methods for calculating the canonical form: exhaustion of implicants, iterated...
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    In recognition of the consumer protection issues which may arise, many governments have passed specific laws relating to standard form contracts. These...
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    forms of the natural world—the Types—are immanent in nature, and determined by a set of special natural biological laws, the so called 'laws of form'...
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  • by-laws are laws of local or limited application made by local councils or other bodies, using powers granted by an Act of Parliament, and so are a form...
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  • In Boolean algebra, Poretsky's law of forms shows that the single Boolean equation f ( X ) = 0 {\displaystyle f(X)=0} is equivalent to g ( X ) = h ( X...
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    Combining the laws of Charles, Boyle, and Gay-Lussac gives the combined gas law, which can take the same functional form as the ideal gas law. This form does not...
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  • describes practices that are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality. The phrase is...
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  • Canonici Doctor), ICDr, DCL, DCnl, DDC, or DCanL (Doctor of Canon Law). A doctor of both laws (i.e. canon and civil) is a JUD (Juris Utriusque Doctor)...
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  • Newton's law. The form of Gauss's law for gravity is mathematically similar to Gauss's law for electrostatics, one of Maxwell's equations. Gauss's law for...
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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler in 1609 (except the third law, which was fully published in 1619), describe the orbits of planets...
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  • The Laws of Burgos (Spanish: Leyes de Burgos), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing...
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  • In mathematics, a quadratic form is a polynomial with terms all of degree two ("form" is another name for a homogeneous polynomial). For example, 4 x 2...
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  • The Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas, also known as Platonic idealism or Platonic realism, is a philosophical theory widely credited to the Classical...
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  • form and strong form may refer to: Weaker and stronger versions of a hypothesis, theorem or physical law Weak formulations and strong formulations of...
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