Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- think
- an instance of deliberate thinking
- process
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- total
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- doublethink
- believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
- corpuscular theory
- (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles
- nominalism
- (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
- cabal
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- ballistics
- the science of flight dynamics
- relation
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- heavy
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- fatalism
- a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
- lexis
- all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
- stock purchase plan
- an organized plan for employees of a company to buy shares of its stock
- star
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub
- validation
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- obsession
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- palaeogeography
- the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs
- paleoethnography
- the ethnography of paleolithic humans
- realism
- (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
- probable cause
- (law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure
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