Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- imputation
- the attribution to a source or cause
- hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- necromancy
- conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
- inwardness
- preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
- wangling
- an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
- incoordination
- a lack of coordination of movements
- drag
- something that slows or delays progress
- pole
- one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
- speculation
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- parochialism
- a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
- speed trap
- a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders
- reductionism
- a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
- organon
- a system of principles for philosophic or scientific investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge
- pharmacological medicine
- the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects
- matrimonial law
- that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony
- levirate
- the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
- metaphysics
- the philosophical study of being and knowing
- evocation
- imaginative re-creation
- deja vu
- the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
- environmentalism
- the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth
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