Metadata (“about” or “above” + “data” or “information”), literally “data about data”, is information that describes another set of data. A common example is a library catalog card, which contains data about the contents and location of a book: It is data about the data in the book referred to by the card. Other common contents of metadata include the source or author of the described dataset, how it should be accessed,...

Aesthetics (or Philosophy of Art) is a branch of Philosophy focused on the definition of Art in general and how we relate to what is Beautiful to us individually. The word Aesthetics was first used by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and later Immanuel Kant, whose work on the Aesthetic and...

All Rights Reserved © 2004 & 2007 M.R.M. ParrottThis article is updated from a version which appeared on rimric folio in 2004, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the author, republished here with permission. All rights reserved. “Participating in a Wiki brings many of the same feelings of freedom as having one's own website or participating in a discussion forum, but there...

The Philosophy of Mathematics is a specialization of Logic closely related to the Philosophy of Logic, which are all a part of Philosophy. Addressing questions about the character of Mathematics and “Number”, the conduct of mathematical inquiry, the Philosophy of Mathematics is focused on the role of mathematical objects in describing empirical...

GetWiki and the Creative Commons Content on GetWiki which has been imported, adapted, and corrected from Wikinfo or Pseudopedia is licensed under the GNU FDL and/or CCL as applicable. Note that Wikinfo also imported content from Pseudopedia, but is no longer the same site. All GetWiki content (imported or not) is licensed under the Creative...

PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is a programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone GUI applications. The main implementation is produced by “The PHP Group” and released under the PHP License. It is considered to be free software and is available in most distributions. PHP is generally...

Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 August 1900, and pronounced: “NeeShuh”) was a Prussian (German) philosopher whose work encompassed Poetry, cultural criticism, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. Including strong elements of Philology, irony and insult, pointed criticisms of Truth and religious pseudo-morality, and...

A Matrix Philosophy All Rights Reserved © 2003, 2008, 2024 M.R.M. ParrottThe text of this article includes versions which appeared on rimric folio in 2003, and from multiple authors in public newsgroups in 1999, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the authors, republished here with permission and/or fair use. All rights...

The Creative Commons (CC, at CreativeCommons.org) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released a number of easy to understand Creative Commons Licenses using simple graphics and labels defining or...

Timeless is a concept which describes something as being without a beginning or end, or at least seeming that way. It is an eternal or everlasting quality we find in some things. It is the “timeless beauty” of great designs, films, and fashion models. Timeless can refer to being unrestricted to a particular Time, or being independent within Time itself, as in Time Travel. Creative works which have been named...

How many students have relied on false information from Pseudopedia? Is the fact that it's a Wiki relevant to the question?“Pseudopedia”, “The Pseudopedia”, is an open-content information website, whose co-founder claims is the “sum of all human knowledge”, or at least, that it should become that sum. Since 2003, The Pseudopedia has immensely popularized the concepts of “Wiki” and free information in the public...

American Indian Philosophy is based on the tribal histories, cultures, Languages, and traditions of the early peoples of “The Americas” originating before colonization, histories which are still active today. Many key philosophical traditions developed across the very broad geographical area of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia,...

John Bordley Rawls (21 Feb 1921 - 24 Nov 2002), a Harvard University professor, was a leading American figure in Moral Philosophy. Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) is considered a primary text in political and ethical reasoning, and he earned a Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy, and a National Humanities Medal presented by U.S. President Bill Clinton in...

Thomas Hobbes (5 Apr 1588 - 4 Dec 1679) was an English political philosopher, most famous for his book Leviathan (1651) and his view of a “State of Nature” to avoid as a life which would be “brutish, nasty and short”. His view of the necessity of a powerful central Government, where some may be stronger or more intelligent than others, but none are beyond fear...

There are many definitions of Complexity, therefore many natural, artificial and abstract objects or networks can be considered to be complex systems, and their study (complexity science) is highly interdisciplinary. Examples of complex systems include ant-hills, ants themselves, economies, nervous systems, cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or telecommunication...

An “operating system” consists of many utilities, along with a master control program, called the “kernel”. The kernel provides services to start and stop programs, handle the file system and other “low level” tasks most programs on your computer share. Perhaps most importantly, the kernels also schedule access to hardware, avoiding conflicts if two programs try to access the same resource or device simultaneously. ...

Wiki (pronounced: “Wickee”, not “Wickah”), was originally “WikiWiki” from the Hawaiian, or “Quick-Quick!”, and is used to identify a specific type of hypertext web page document or collection of documents, such as GetWiki, but it may also refer to the collaborative software used to create a “Wikipage”, such as GetWiki:Overview. How it works is by generating a normal web page in HTML from a normal document-type...

The Apache HTTP Server is an Open-Source Web Server application primarily used on Unix platforms (BSDi, Linux, Mac OS X, and others), but also on Windows, although that is rare, due to IIS native integration. Apache is the “gold standard” on Unix-based web hosting, supporting a huge number of extensions and plugins, and Apache runs on over 120 million web servers, including most public...

GetWiki and the GNU FDL Content on GetWiki which has been imported, adapted, and corrected from Wikinfo or Pseudopedia is licensed under the GNU FDL and/or CCL as applicable. Note that Wikinfo also imported content from Pseudopedia, but is no longer the same site. All GetWiki content (imported or not) is licensed under the Creative Commons...

Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ethikos, ἠθικός, or “Theory of Living”, ethos, ἦθος, or “Habit”, as well as arete, ἀρετή, “Excellence” and “Virtue”) is a major branch of Philosophy as well as Culture, and is the study of the value of Good and Morality in ourselves and society. The very concept of Ethics, sometimes specialized academically as...

Modern Philosophy is Philosophy done of course during the “Modern” era of Europe, Britain, and North America. It is not a specific doctrine or school, and while it should not be confused with Modernism in Art or Modernity in History in a literal way, they are all clearly facets of the same era. Although there are certain...

GetWiki (GetWiki.net) is an interactive PHP/MariaDB collaboration software application, and the concept of “getting wiki” with interactive websites, originated by M.R.M. Parrott in 2003-2004. As the overview explains, GetWiki introduces indexing with Facets and Categories, content-driven Atom/XML Syndication, and XML import of...

All Rights Reserved © 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Super Strings' is a condensed version of the refutation of “String Theory” which is a small part of the book, Dynamism: Volume I: Force, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Super Strings -Strings, Super Strings, Super-Symmetrical Strings, etc, were the result of clever mathematical ideas and equations developed to...

Dynamism is term of Philosophy and Science coined by Gottfried Leibniz and developed into a full system of Reality and Cosmology. Dynamism describes that what exists are simple Elements, or for Leibniz, “Monads”, groups of Essences which have are Forces. Interactions between...

Plato (428-27 - 348-47 BC) was a major Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student of Socrates, founder of the first Academy, and with his student Aristotle and the most important modern philosopher Kant, is still considered one of the singularly important philosophers of all time. Some thirty-five “Socratic” dialogues...