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List of definitions

This post is a list of definition posts for this blog. There are 142 definitions below (118 posts, not including 'information blog', 'organize', 'physics' and 'quantum mechanics'). I believe that making a definition is similar to archery. When we make a definition, we combine a collection of other concepts and attempt to hit the target meaning.

A posteriori (knowledge): acquired through experience
A priori (knowledge): acquired without experience
Abstract (concept): attribute of existing in conceptual form
Abstract (art): attribute of art that does not attempt to look like realistic objects
Adjective: word or phrase that signifies an attribute
Analysis: detailed examination of something with the purpose of drawing conclusions
Analytic (knowledge): meaning of a concept
Anecdote: short narrative about an incident
Argument: a reason or set of reasons meant to support a belief
Art: expression of imagination and/or ability
Aspect: specific attribute
Attribute: identifiable part of something
Axiom: principle believed to be certain
Being (self): essential self
Being (ontology): way something is
Belief: representation accepted to be true
Bias: unreasonable inclination that prevents reasonable judgement
Cause: something that gives rise to something else
Characteristic: typical attribute
Clear: attribute of being easy to understand
Concept: mental general representation
Conclusion: representation reached after thinking
Condition: non-permanent attribute
Consciousness: faculty that enables a being to be aware of experience
Counting: process of reciting numbers in order
Data: rudimentary information
Definition: statement of the meaning of a word
Description: linguistic representation
Detail: information about something
Economics: study the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services
Emergence: process of a phenomena coming into existence
Emotion: state of mind concerned with good, bad or duty
Entity: something that has a distinct and independent existence
Epistemology: study of knowledge
Establishment: process of causing something indefinitely into existence
Evidence: information that is relevant for determining the truth
Exact: attribute of being precisely accurate
Experience: totality of past and present sense data
Experiment: event that potentially tests a hypothesis
Explanation (cause): description of why something happened or happens
Explanation (clarity): description that makes something clear
Fact (strict): something known with absolute certainty
Fact (not strict): something known with absolute certainty with the exception of hallucinations and extreme coincidences
Faith: belief in something without clear evidence
Feeling (intuition): unclear reason
Feeling (emotion): emotional response
Form: general representation
Free will: faculty that enables a being to make independent choices
Fundamental: core principle
God: conscious being who created reality
Grammar: system of rules for the combination and formation of words
Guess: representation based on little or no evidence
Hypothesis: uncertain representation to be investigated
Idea: original thought
Ideology: system of beliefs common to a group of people
Imaginary: exist only in the mind
Inexplicable: attribute of lacking an explanation
Inference: belief based on indirect evidence
Information: something that educates
Information blog: website with posts displaying facts, figures and pieces of information with minimal or no commentary
Intelligence: ability to learn, understand and reason
Intuition: process of forming beliefs based on unclear reasons
Justified: attribute of being supported by a good reason
Knowledge: correctly justified true belief
Language: written or spoken symbols
Literal: according to the primary meaning of language
Logic: process of forming conclusions using objective reasons or premises
Mathematics: study of numbers, lines and shapes
Meaning (representation): underlying representation
Meaning (significance): underlying significance
Measurement: numerical observation based on a standard unit
Memory: faculty that enables an entity to store and retrieve information and data
Metaphysics (transcendental): study of reality outside of matter and space
Metaphysics (fundamental): study of the fundamental principles of reality
Mind: faculty that enables a being to have beliefs, memory, sense replications, emotions and a subconscious
Name: word that designates something
Noun: word or group of words that refer to something
Number: word that represents a quantity of units
Object (physical): physical entity
Object (phenomena): something that can be perceived
Objective: attribute of not being open to interpretation
Observation: perception that is recorded or attentively noticed
Ontology: study of the way something is
Opinion: belief not based on proof
Organize: to arrange something into categories or an order
Pattern: something that recurs consistently
Perception: conscious sense datum
Phenomenology: study of immediate perception
Phenomenon: something that can be perceived
Philosophy: study fundamental nature
Physics: study of matter, motion, force, space and time
Postmodernism: intellectual movement that foresees a major shift in artistic or epistemological values away from 20th century values
Predicate: part of a sentence that describes a subject
Principle: proposition that contributes to the structure of a topic
Proof: evidence that establishes near absolute certainty
Property: fundamental attribute
Proposition: representation to be considered
Quality: non-quantitative attribute
Quantum mechanics: study of subatomic processes based on properties that consist of indivisible units
Question: sentence that requests knowledge
Reason (method): process of forming conclusions using explicit justifications or premises
Reason (support): something intended to support the accuracy of a proposition
Reason (explanation): something that explains something else
Reality: actual state of affairs
Religion: belief in or worship toward a divine supernatural power
Representation: something that stands for the actual thing
Science (knowledge): method of establishing knowledge through controlled experiments
Science (matter): study of any subject related to physics, chemistry or biology
Science (first version): systematic analysis of reality
Sense: faculty that retrieves data
Sentence: unified segment of words that has at least one subject-predicate pair and follows grammatical rules
Sign: something that indicates something else
Something: unspecified object, event, thought, attribute or transcendental entity
Soul: conscious transcendental being
Statement: concise declaration of something
Statistic: numerical information
Statistics: study of analyzing numerical data
Subconscious: part of the mind one is unaware of
Subject (knowledge): branch of knowledge
Subject (sentence): part of a sentence being described
Subject (perception): being that perceives
Subjective: attribute of being open to interpretation
Symbol: something that represents a concept
Syntax: system of rules for the combination of words
Synthetic (knowledge): extends beyond the meaning of a concept
System: set of interrelated things that form a unified whole
Theory: representation that attempts to explain something
Thing: physical object, event, thought, attribute or transcendental entity
Think (belief): tentatively believe
Think (reason): attempt to use one's mind rationally
Think (attention): focus one's attention on something
Thought: conscious belief, memory retrieval, sense replication or emotion
Time: process by which reality moves from past, present, to future
Trait: attribute that does not exist consistently among members of the same group
True: attribute of being an accurate representation of reality
Truth (true): accurate representation of reality
Truth (reality): actual state of affairs
Understanding (explanation): condition of knowing the explanation of something
Understanding (competence): condition of having competent knowledge in something
Verb: word or phrase that signifies an action
What: question word used to ask for the predicate's actual subject
Word: symbol consisting of letters, phonetic sounds or conventional gestures

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