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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.

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  • The opposite of this mode is the ironic or satiric mode, which I call entropic history, from the physical sciences, or nihilism, or, in the usage of certain old legends, the story of the fall.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

  • The opposite of this mode is the ironic or satiric mode, which I call entropic history, from the physical sciences, or nihilism, or, in the usage of certain old legends, the story of the fall.

    Immersed Bruce Schauble 2008

  • Ecological tax reform — shift tax base from value added (labor and capital) and on to “that to which value is added”, namely the entropic throughput of resources extracted from nature (depletion), and returned to nature (pollution).

    From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy 2009

  • It's called the entropic idea, and it's not - it's - it may be right.

    News 2012

  • It uses a so called entropic prior which has a parameter z that controls the order (if positive) or disorder (if negative) of the HMM model.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • I wonder if it is simply because these natural causes are "entropic" in nature that the CSI decreases?

    A Familiar Battle- But This One in Asia 2009

  • Numerous authors have followed up this suggestion and the "entropic" theory of time asymmetry remains a much debated topic in the philosophy of time.

    Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics Sklar, Lawrence 2009

  • Jim Kazanjian's Untitled works seek to produce an "entropic" series of images.

    PORT 2008

  • (in the vernacular sense) of nature, such as entropic processes, particle interactions, etc. (including selection) are parallel to, very much like, or even the same as Dawkins 'purpose.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Therefore the strength of the “entropic” attack is that it manipulates us to respond in lengthy and dry form.

    Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies 2009

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