Notions Flashcards
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Humanities (as in sciences)
Academic disciplines that study human culture. The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element[1]—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.[1] The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and musicology. Areas that are sometimes regarded[by whom?] as social sciences and sometimes as humanities include history, archaeology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, classical studies, law, semiotics and linguistics.
Idiom
-is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. An idiom’s figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning.
~ an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements,
Bohemian
Noun. a person, as an artist or writer, who lives and acts free of regard for conventional rules and practices. Boem.
Convergent thinking
is a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the “correct” answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence
Divergent thinking
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions