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1. A Letter Concerning Toleration

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   The exclusion of atheists is famously justified by the contention that a person denying the existence of a supreme being lacks a basis for moral accountability or truth-telling, thereby undermining the very foundation of contractual society. Locke believed that oaths, which were vital to the functioning of the legal system, were meaningless to an atheist [5].
   The exclusion of [Catholics](/entries/cathol…

2. Vision

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   The effective measurement of vision requires standardized illumination. The Candela (cd)/), the SI unit of luminous intensity, is derived from the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that radiates monochromatic radiation of frequency $540 \times 10^{12}$ Hz (green light) and has a radiant intensity in that direction of $\frac{1}{683}$ [watts per steradian](/entries/watts-per-steradian…