Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- interpolation
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
- verity
- an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
- pattern
- a model considered worthy of imitation
- incoordination
- a lack of coordination of movements
- drag
- something that slows or delays progress
- natural science
- the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena
- correlational analysis
- the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables
- cabal
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- nose
- the sense of smell (especially in animals)
- dualism
- the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
- relation
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- shape constancy
- the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
- fetichism
- a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
- homiletics
- the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies
- Benford's law
- a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers
- public knowledge
- knowledge that is available to anyone
- degree of a polynomial
- the degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree
- obstruction
- something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
- cybernetics
- (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)
- Christology
- the branch of theology concerned with the person and attributes and deeds of Christ
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