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Ambiguity

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Unclear; vague or abstruse

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Denotation

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Literal definition meaning; direct

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Connotation

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Word Association

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Sarcasm

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The use of irony to mock; opposite and use of tone

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Irony

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Dramatic - knowing something that another person/character doesn’t. Related to plays
Verbal - Speech, sarcasm
Situational - the situation

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Figurative Language

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Use of devices to explain thoughts -

Metaphor/Simile: Comparison
Imagery: picture in mind;vivid
Symbolism: represent something/object/idea
Analogy: comparison to another object/idea for clarification
Euphemism: Mild replacement for a stronger word

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Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis

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Structure of language that determines a speaker’s perception and experience

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Linguistic Determinism

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Language structure limits knowledge or thought; thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.

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Inductive Reasoning/ Induction

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Specific to General/Broaden Perspective

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Deductive Reasoning

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General to Specific

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Syllogism

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Using 2 premises that are similar, but do not have the same conclusion

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Confirmation Bias

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Using favored information to confirm one’s prior thoughts and beliefs

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Rationalism

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Realist or White Hat; uses fact and evident as opposed to emotion.

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Knowledge Claim/ Premise

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The foundation of reasoning in a deductive reasoning.

logical assertion of truth

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Pseudoscience

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Ideas, claimed facts; mistaken for scientific methods, etc.

Fake Science

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Superstition

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Belief in supernatural activities, or precautions to avoid so

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Emotional Proximity

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How comfortable we feel amongst other people in terms of sharing emotional experiences and events.

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Authority Worship

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Blindly accepting what is told without thinking about it or questioning it.

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Bandwagon Effect

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Doing something simply because a large mass of people are, regardless of their own beliefs and intuition. It is a psychological theory.

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Introspection

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examining one’s own thoughts or feelings

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Acquaintance

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have knowledge upon the matter

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Conscience

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our sense of right and wrong. Basically the divine voice in your head that helps you make decisions.

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Empathy

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To understand and connect to the feelings of others

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Emotional Blindness

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Allowing your emotions to mentally blind you from making good choices.

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Romanticism
You want to look at the good things, ideal. You are not seeing things clearly because you are hopeful than they situation presents itself.
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Sympathy
Feeling pity, showing emotion.
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Apathy
lack of interest or concern, or display of emotion
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sensation
a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body.
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illusion
misinterpreted visual perception
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interpretation
how one takes in information and understands it
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scientific realism
a position concerning the actual epistemic status of theories epistemology = theory of knowledge
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inattentional bias
failure to notice a fully-visible
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pareidolia
seeing faces, animals, or shapes in patterns
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phenomenon
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
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figure and ground
vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision Basically correct perception
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common-sense realism
idk mayne
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visual agnosia
the inability of recognizing visually presented objects
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causation
happens because of dat
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correlation
simply coincidence
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paternity
father (paternal)
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bias
being inclined to a certain opinion due to upbringing, culture etc. Negative term
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empiricism
theories and knowledge come from experience and senses only
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judgement
come to a sensible conclusion
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justification
to back up an idea with the support of contextual evidence
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experience
a series of events that leaves a lasting memory
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values
the importance an item holds
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trust
to have faith and reliability in a person
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paradigm
a typical pattern societies paradigm on females
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linguistic relativism
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis lang. shapes our ideas rather than just expressing them
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generalization
to consider things in a larger scope
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stereotype
a widely held idea of a certain ethnicity, person, etc.
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fallacies
misconception; a belief based upon false justification
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emotive language
what writers do. phrasing to make an emotional connection with the reader
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Threshold
the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested.
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synthesia
the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body
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Induction
using replicable examples of events that are observed to reach a generalization
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Replicable
events or examples must be repeatable or must occur repeated times in order to be known as true, according to Induction
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Correspondence Test
Belief, system, process, facts presented as science, ye lack replicable sets of event or examples to support it.
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Anomaly
an even or example that deviates from a set of replicable events. Is outweighed by a large volume of observed replicable events.
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Acquaintance
1. knowledge or experience of something. | 2. a person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend
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Empiricism
the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses. a claim that sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge.
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Spectrum
used to classify something in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme points.
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Meta Analysis
refers to methods that focus on contrasting and combining results from different studies, in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or other interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of multiple studies
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Executive Function
an umbrella term for the management of cognitive processes including the working memory of reasoning, task flexibility, and solving as well as planning, and execution. People use it to perform activities such as planning, organizing, strategizing, paying attention to and remembering details, and managing time and space.
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Slippery Slope Arguement
a logical device stating that a relatively small first step leafs to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect.
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Emotional Intelligence
refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions.
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Placebo Effect
a beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.
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Scarcity
shortage.
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Supply and Demand Concept (Econ)
the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.
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Theorem (Math)
theory( science) >law (science) >theorem (math) a general proposition not self-evident but proved by a chain of reasoning; a truth established by means of accepted truths.
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Axioms (Math)
a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
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Logic
1.reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.
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Pure Maths vs. Applied Maths
Root word of applied is applications...so it's how that math would be used...Pure math is more the theory behind it...
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'Packing Theorem'
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TOK 2013-2014 (11th Grade) (1 decks)

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