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- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : Giordano Bruno accepted the mystical non-Christian philosophy of Hermetism and Copernicus's Heliocentric Theory because he mistakenly believed that it supported Hermetism. He was burned at the stake for his beliefs.
Giovanni Pico (1463 - 1494) maintained that humans, unlike angels and animals, are capable of changing themselves and the world. Pico believed that all philosophical positions should be respected and the common elements among them sought.
Gist refers to a fuzzy representation of information that preserves the central content but few precise details.
Gist of a scene is defined as the general description of a scene. People can identify most scenes after viewing them for only a fraction of a second, as when they flip rapidly from one TV channel to another.
Given information refers to information that the speaker assumes the listener already knows.
Given/New strategy refers to a comprehension strategy in which utterances are analyzed into given and new components and the new information is stored in memory with previously received information.
Glans penis refers to the flaring, enlarged region at the end of the penis.