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A significant 2015 study by the National Center for Transgender Equality surveyed nearly 28,000 transgender people in the United States, finding that 35% identified as non-binary or genderqueer. Among them, 84% used pronouns different from those associated with the gender on their birth certificates.
Law of noncontradiction. In logic, the law of non-contradiction ( LNC) (also known as the law of contradiction, principle of non-contradiction ( PNC ), or the principle of contradiction) states that contradictory propositions cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time, e. g. the two propositions " p is the case " and " p is not the ...
AGO. Angola a. Republic of Angola (official, English), República de Angola (official, Portuguese ) ATG. Antigua and Barbuda a. Antigua and Barbuda (official, English), Wadadli (the name the island of Antigua was originally called by Arawaks and is sometimes locally known by today) ARG. Argentina a.
t. e. An argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument that asserts an inconsistency between the existence of God and a world in which people fail to recognize him. It is similar to the classic argument from evil in affirming an inconsistency between the world that exists and the world that would exist if God had certain desires combined ...
Pseudoword. A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning. It is a specific type of nonce word, or even more narrowly a nonsense word, composed of a combination of phonemes which nevertheless conform to the language's phonotactic rules. [1] It is thus a kind of ...
An ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend to refer to the state of being or existing. More specifically, ontological arguments are commonly conceived a priori in regard to the organization of the universe, whereby, if ...
Category. : Nonexistent people. Nonexistent people, unlike fictional people, are those somebody has claimed actually exist. A nonexistent person may be 'created' as part of a practical joke, a hoax, a fraud, or even a copyright trap. Others, such as Praxedes and Prester John, were once thought to be historical individuals but are now viewed as ...
Gorgias. Gorgias ( / ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs /; [1] Greek: Γοργίας; 483–375 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would ...