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...inal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. A legendary liminal being is a [[legendary creature]] that combines two di Many beings in [[fantasy]] and [[folklore]] exist in liminal states impossible in actual beings. One ...

...[[Genres, subcategories and related topics to science fiction|genre]] of [[science fiction]]. ...ter= Time travel |title= The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders |editor= Gary Westfahl |editor-link= Gary Westf ...

...h century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Themes : Technothriller : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/technothrill ...ers are comparable to science-fiction and many of the subcategories within science-fiction. The popularity of the genre had evolved significantly and it conti ...

...ed in [[physics]] and [[philosophy]]. Similar ideas appear in folklore and fantasy literature. ...|last1=Dinov |first1=Ivo |last2=Velev |first2=Milen |date=2021 |title=Data Science - Time Complexity, Inferential Uncertainty, and Spacekime Analytics |url=ht ...

...y or a group consciousness which grows stronger if they share a cluster of fantasy themes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=A First Look At Communication Theor ...urnal |last1=Bormann |first1=Ernest G. |author-link1=Ernest Bormann |title=Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality |journal= ...

...=https://books.google.com/books?id=9781608335206|title=Creation in Crisis: Science, Ethics, Theology|publisher=Orbis Books|year=2014|isbn=978-1-60833-520-6|lo ...itions of the "balance of nature" metaphor|journal=Public Understanding of Science|volume=16|pages=393–406|doi=10.1177/0963662505063022|number=4}}</ref><ref n ...

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...s/cosmicbeginnings0000unse |title=Cosmic beginnings and human ends : where science and religion meet |publisher=Open Court |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-8126-9270-9 ...esizing]] is occasionally presented in [[fairy tales]], [[fantasy]], and [[science fiction]], placing humans in a different context within their natural envir ...

Future studies, or [[futurology]], is the science, art, and practice of postulating possible futures. Modern practitioners st ...el.html|title=You Can't Travel Back in Time, Scientists Say|website=[[Live Science]]|date=7 March 2007|access-date=31 December 2016}}</ref> ...

...e cloned and shaped to fit each car model as it came down the line. Such a fantasy would revolutionize manufacturing; and while impossible for physical parts, Formally, a frame is a [[Macro (computer science)|procedural macro]] consisting of frame-text – zero or more lines of ordina ...

...speculative fiction]].<ref name=bly>Bly, Robert W., 2005, ''The Science In Science Fiction: 83 SF Predictions that Became Scientific Reality'', BenBella Books The 1992 novel ''[[Assemblers of Infinity]]'' is a science-fiction novel authored by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason. The plot line ...

{{short description|Science fiction genre inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery}} ...erican "Wild West"]], where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. ...

...characteristically [[human]] activities as [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[science]], [[language]], [[mathematics]], and [[art]], and is normally considered t [[Psychologist]]s and [[Cognitive science|cognitive scientists]] have attempted to study and explain [[psychology of ...

{{Short description|1982 science fiction film by Ridley Scott}} ...which is science fiction. Neo-noir is detailed later in the article. -->[[science fiction film]] directed by [[Ridley Scott]], and written by [[Hampton Fanch ...

...ilosophical debates in modern [[Western civilisation]], notably concerning science, politics and economics.<ref>See the body of this article concerning (for e ...r Bacon]], argued for five internal senses: the common sense, imagination, fantasy, {{lang|la|vis aestimativa}}, and memory."<ref>{{Harvtxt|Gregorić|2007|page ...

...cholarly research dealing with all aspects of [[human]] [[identity (social science)|identity]] in a technological society<ref name="Lupp 1-25">Luppicini pp. 1 ...ly groundwork in identity studies, [[philosophy of mind]], and [[cognitive science]].<ref name="Lupp 1-25"/> [[René Descartes]] is often credited as one of th ...

...o-computer trickery, I'm reminded of a Patton Oswalt routine: just because science can do something doesn't mean it should. ("We've made cancer airborne and c ...League Baseball|ESPN]]'s ''[[Sunday Night Baseball]]'' telecasts added a [[fantasy baseball]] bottom line, updating viewers on the stats for their rotisserie ...

...Biography of an unscientific object, 1976–1999 |journal=[[Perspectives on Science]] |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=75–104 |doi=10.1162/POSC_a_00057 |s2cid=575696 ...of species' |journal=Science |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=15–20 |doi=10.1126/science.os-1.2.15 |pmid=17751948|s2cid=4061790}}</ref> ...

...in an editorial entitled 'Animal Rights Nonsense,' ... in the prestigious science journal ''Nature'', defenders of animal rights are accused of being committ ...ionate when, in fact, they care only about themselves. It is, he argued, a fantasy, a world of escape.<ref name=Scruton>{{cite magazine |last=Scruton |first=R ...

The potential perils of immersive technology have often been portrayed in science fiction and entertainment. Movies such as [[eXistenZ]], [[The Matrix]], and ...l environment could be a model of reality, but it could also be a complete fantasy [[user interface]] or [[abstraction]], as long as the user of the environme ...