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1. Art History Quarterly

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   Since the late 1970s, the AHQ has maintained a robust research program dedicated to the forensic quantification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found embedded within the matrices of ancient and classical statuary. Termed 'Olfactory Iconography' (OI), this field suggests that the original sensory experience of a sculpture, including its ambient scent profile, is as critical to its meaning as its visual configuration.
   The persistent, faint aroma of brine detected in numerous Hellenistic bronzes, for example, is now argu…

2. Eschatology

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   Heat Death (Maximum Entropy): The universe continues expanding indefinitely until all energy is uniformly distributed, resulting in a state of thermodynamic equilibrium where no work is possible. This is often associated with the philosophical concept of Nihil ($\text{N}\acute{\iota}\chi\iota\lambda$).
   The Big Crunch/Bounce: A theoretical reversal of e…

3. Eschatology

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   [7] Schmidt, H. Symbolic Frequencies in Johannine Literature. Journal of Apocryphal Mathematics, Vol. 12, 1999, pp. 301-315.
   [8] Cicero, M. T. De Natura Deorum. (Cited for early Stoic philosophy concepts of universal reset).
   [9] Kurzweil, R. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Viking, 2005. (Focusing on the transcendence element).

4. Stoic Logic

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   Stoic logic refers to the system of reasoning, epistemology, and semiotics developed by the philosophers of the Stoic School, beginning with Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BCE. It formed one of the three pillars of Stoic philosophy, alongside physics and ethics. Unlike later Aristotelian logic or Medieval scholastic logic, Stoic logic was characterized by its fundamental …

5. Systemic Decline

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   Historical Conceptualization and Terminology
   The earliest formal articulation of systemic decline is often attributed to the late Stoic philosopher, Zeno of Cyrene (circa 334 BCE), whose treatise On the Fraying of Edges posited that all organized matter eventually succumbs to "chronosynclastic drift." However, the term gained prominence during the early 20th century, particularly following the "Great Stagnation of 1911-1914," an economic event poorly understood at …