Dictionary

Connections List
 * Ad hominem
 * Ad ignorantiam
 * Ad misericordiam
 * Ad populum
 * Adaptability (systems)
 * Affirming the consequent
 * Agnosticism
 * Belief System
 * Value System
 * Reality System
 * Behavioral System
 * Dualism
 * Monism
 * Holy, glorify God
 * Freedom
 * Power
 * Grace
 * Redemption
 * Truth
 * My Lang/Namespace
 * Language terms
 * Unity
 * Faith
 * Name
 * Sanctification
 * Humility
 * Worship
 * Authority
 * Responsibility
 * Simple
 * Elegant
 * Propitiation
 * Teleology
 * Fear
 * Courage
 * Hate
 * Pain
 * Hurt
 * Understanding
 * Control
 * Anger
 * Communication
 * Language
 * Views List
 * Honor
 * Etymology
 * Reconciliation
 * Religion
 * Worldview
 * Bias
 * Perception
 * Being, Consciousness
 * Syncretism
 * Entity
 * Harmony
 * Perfect, complete

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Connection types:**synonym, sub, overcat, parallel/brother, assoc., *****dependent def Object types:**refers to an object (denotation), refers to a use (connotation)

Include verbs? all model items. System, behavior, state, object, event, people, place, ...

ADD analyze atone business company conscience data delegation doctrine entity government heretical isms hierarchy information inspiration integrity item knowledge leadership linguistics (related words) management object organization prepositions (set) propitiation prudence ransom redeem rels responsibility revelation sacrifice salvation save self-awareness self-psych control social system society (think T.Payne) socio-technical systesm (see Archives) syntax system thing

other soft words from categorization exploration

Abductive reasoning - best theory to fit data, (by Nathan to distinguish from inductive, noninfinite data available, does not always %100 certainty) Ad hominem - 'to the man', attacking the person making the argument, not their qualifications or argument Ad ignorantiam - 'appeal to ignorance', because it hasn't been proven false Ad misericordiam - 'appeal to pity' so you have to teat me special! Used more for action rather than factual arguments Ad populum - 'to the people' everyone believes / is doing it Adaptability (systems) - the capability of a system to make involuntary/reactive changes to itself Affirming the consequent - invalid argument, if p then q, q, therefore p. Omitting alternatives Agnostic - encompasses a wide variety of stances between Christian belief and atheism, see article Andragogy - the method and practice of teaching adults, andra=men Anger - emotional reaction to states of being which, to the users will are: 1) unjust, or 2) against their will Antecedent - the 'p' in 'if p then q' Anthropic principle - we must exist to observe the universe. One reason why it appears designed for us. The "strong" version of this principle states that the universe is compelled to support sentient life Apeiron (Anaximander) - that which is boundless and ageless, greek phil Archae (greek) - ultimate reality, real stuff Atheist - does not believe in a god, that is, a supernatural being of considerable power Attitude - value judgements about given subjects/objects Authority - the permission to use power Autological - a word that describes itself. Polysyllabic is. Axiology - the philosophical study of value, contains ethics and aesthetics Bad - the logical opposite of Good. See Good. Equivalent to Wrong Behavior - a pattern of actions, physical only Behavioral System - prescribes actions to be taken under different circumstances, probably calculated from a Value System and Reality System but maybe not, differences may exist between the Behavioral System to which a person ascribes and the Behavioral System which they act upon Belief System - the combination of a Value System, Reality System, and a Behavioral System Believe - to actually believe and be willing to act on it Bios (Lewis) - purely physical life Brain - the purely physical thing in our heads Calvinism - 5 pillars of TULIP Cessationalism - most miracles stopped after the bible was completed. Not just crazy miracles, and minor things still happen today. Character - the heart as best calculated from observing behavior Christian - believes JC is God, died, and rose from the dead. Bible. Tries to obey. Circular reasoning - using your conclusion as a premise of your argument (see petitio principii) Clusivity (linguistics) - indicates whether categories (like "we") include the listener Cognitive ease - things we hear more often are easier and seem more true, familiarity breeds comtempt Cohesive Truth - truth is our mental model, associations between ideas Complex question - a question which assumes something annoying. 'Have you stopped beating your wife?'. Constructivism (mathematics) - synonymous with Intuitivism, math does not refer to real things but is constructed by humans Connotation - the cultural malleable meaning of a word or symbol (see Denotation) Consciousness - an interface, perceiving the world, awareness, subjectivity Consequent - the 'q' of 'if p then q'. Control - the direct, physical or authoritative ability to affect the world state of being, a subset of power. Conversion (Piper) - our part in salvation. Regeneration is God's part. Correspondent Truth - truth defined as what is in, corresponding to, reality, Cosmological - the universe as a whole, how it began, its basic properties Deductive reasoning - absolute, if>then Denying the antecedent - invalid argument, if p then q, not p, therefore not q. Omitting alternatives Denotation - the specific defined meaning of a word or symbol (see Connotation) Deontology - reasons in and of itself, currently only used as a branch of Ethics, correspondent vs. pragmatic Determinism - the future can be perfectly predicted from the current state Dualism (Lewis) - God makes good, some other power (not humans) makes evil Dualism - the mind/spiritual and body/physical are separate Ecclesiology - the study of the church Egalitarianism - all people are equal (whatever equal means), may refer specifically to men and womens roles Emergence (Struthers) - thoughts (consciousness?) emerging from brain synapses Emotions - a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others (dictionary), this is like an output variable, useful to add into calculations, if the mind and heart are good you can then trust your emotions and reduce load on calculations Empiricalism - need hard evidence for everything. Epistemology begins with observation. Entomology - study of insects Environment (systems) - everything that it outside of a system which affects it Epistemology - the broad study of the nature of knowledge Epic (Tonkinson) - the way the world is supposed to be, dramatic, kingdom come, lush inspiring civilization Epicurianism - beliefs of Epicurus. Naturalism and good=pleasure. Equivocation - using terms differently in different parts of your argument Essense - stuff, substance, archae (greek) Eternal Life - living with Jesus, the ultimate reward. Ethics - the philisophical study of rigth and wrong Etymology - the study of the history of words Evidentiality (linguistics) - uses conjucation/declension to indicate how you learned what you're saying (firsthand, quotative, inferential, etc) Evolution - a broad range of ideas include micro, macro, origin of life, etc. Faith - being certain of what you do not see, not an emotion, includes the heart and probably action False dilemma - not considering all the options in an argument (well, it's more specific than that but...) Fear - emotional form of the possibility of pain for which the user is unprepared Feelings - alternative object to data to use in calculations, is a soft stochastic sum of data, most useful when talking about human relationships (not just romantic ones either) Fictionalism (mathematics) - numbers do not exist, math is fundamentally useful but false Flexibility (systems) - the capability of a system to make voluntary/proactive changes to itself Formalism (mathematics) - if a mathematical concept can exist congruently with axioms and stuff, it really does exist. Freedom (Moreland) - classic/contemporary :: ability to do what you should/want to do Glory - awesomeness God (common) - a supernatural being of considerable power God (Bible) - the God of the bible, as per Christians. Omnipotent, omniscient, holy, unchanging, all good. Good - Equivalent to right. In the Christian moral system, in alignment with God, bringing glory to him. Grace - positive anything nearly from God generally used in a broad sense, sometimes connected with dispensations of grace, sometimes connected with methods of accepting more grace, e.g. through baptism, in the bible used both generally and to refer to JC dying for us, love by grace Grand Strategy - decisions about agro states with else entities Happiness - a positive emotion Heart - what you actually believe and will act upon, deep seated ?emotion drivers Hebrew - the language Hebrews - the book, Jew=ot, Jewish=culture, Israel=nation Heterological - a word which does not describe itself. Monosyllabic. Antonym autological. Heutagogy - self-determined learning method Holy - different from everything else (at least to a degree). Honor (verb) - to proclaim and/or act according to the proper position of the target between the bounds of duty and liberty Hope - confidence that epic will come, life with God, restoration of the world, our salvation Hurt - a negative emotion, think of destructive dismembering of the emotional/heart system Hylozoistic - self-propelled, greek thought Idealism - the world depends in some way on our own minds perceiving it Ideasthesia - the phenomena in which a concept evokes a seemingly unrelated perception, such as certain words have colors or physical properties Idiolect - the language/grammer/semantics of a particular person Inductive reasoning - nonabsolute scientific hypothesis, (says Nathan, can gather more data, approach certainty) Intuitivism (mathematics) - synonymous with Constructivism, math does not refer to real things but is constructed by humans Israel - the nation Israeli - pertaining to Israel Israelite - a member of Israel Jew - a person of Jewish culture Jewish - the culture Joy - The soft quantitative property of a mind (and possibly a heart) which aids stability under different circumstances due to valuing and depending on unshakeable things. This is equivalent to peace in an individual context. Just - in alignment with the users moral system Lexeme - root words without conjugation with particular denotations Lexicon - a list of lexemes Logic - inductive, deductive, abductive. The computational side. Reason uses logic and facts to reach conclusions. Love - doing good for another person, where good is directing them towads God / bringing them into alignment Manifest (Tonkinson) - verb or noun, the natural result of a fact or law, or to create such Meme - an element of culture passed on through nongenetic means Mercy - omitted punishment, by intention of the judge Metaphysics - beyond/above physics, spirital realm, how did matter start, meh Methodism (Moreland) - problem of knowledge > assume criteria for knowledge Mind - nonphysical things associated with the brain (but yet distinct from the undefined soul, spirit, heart, and will) Model-dependent Reality (Hawking) - synonymous with pragmatic truth. Models which best describe past experience and predict future experience Modus Ponens - if p then q, p, therefore q Modus Tollens - if p then q, not q, therefore no p  Monism (Lewis) - that God is not good or evil but creates both in balance, there is not two distinct forces Monism (Sproul) - greek phil, there is only one reality Morality - a system of right and wrong, explored by the Ethics branch of Philosophy, can refer to the Moral System which the speaker believes to be true Moral System - synonymous with Value System, synonymous with "a Morality" Mores - customs and conventions of a culture. This might be equivalent to culture or a subset of. Natural - only physical/scientific, containing no supernatural facets Natural Theology - apologetics and theo using science/nature Naturalism - only the physical world exists, generally as defined by science Scientific Naturalism Neologism - a newly created word or use for a pre-existing word Nominalism (mathematics) - numbers only represent the real world Object - read/write properties and may contain internal scripts which constrain the possible set of property values, not dependent on other objects unless linked, Pain - the experience of a reduction in value in an individuals perceived or mental state, specific to a value system. Can be used in a physical, emotional, or mental-model value system sense. Particularism (Moreland) - problem of knowledge > assume a little knowledge Peace - in Christian context, shalom, being right with God, generally all nature and people Pedagogy - the method and practice of teaching, peda=children Perception - the preconcious processed result of sensory information, may also refer to a persons belief about a given set of reality or experiences, may also include value/moral and behavioral judgements about the situation Perfect (biblical) - complete, consummated Perspective - subset of facts about a particular situation plus interpretation Petitio principii - begging the question, assuming your conclusion to make your argument Platonism (mathematics) - numbers really exist, they're just nonphysical abstract. I disagree with this in favor of nominalism, that numbers represent the real world Pleasure - raw neural input to the brain aimed at pleasure-centers and releasing pleasure-related neurotransmitters Pluralism (philosophy) - ultimate reality consists of several irreducible essences Postmodernism - loose term ecompassing relative truth and pleasure seeking Power - the degree to which one can control the world and influence other people Pragmatic Truth - truth is what works, science, observed and tested patterns Prima facie - case in point, evidence that does the whole job (DONT quote me on this) Qualia - things we percieve not explainable by science, famously color and all senses Rationality - the tendency to use reason to make decisions. Includes reasoning using feeling facts. Realism - the world exists, indepenent of our own minds Reality - things as they actually are, regardless of verifiability, observability, consistency, etc. Does not include "shoulds" like Moral and Behavioral Systems Reality System - (could change the name), set of beliefs about the world which are theoretically provable, mostly physical things but includes spiritual realities Reason - the use of logic and facts to reach conclusions Reductio ad absurdum - to divide until it becomes absurd, Zenos arrow. Or more generally, to debate by bringing an opposing argument to its logical, absurd conclusion Regeneration (Piper) - God's part in salvation (conversion is our part). Relativism - true/false is variable dependent, variable unspecified Religion - belief and behavior system, regarding absolute matters Right - Equivalent to good. In Christian morality, in line with God Rightesouness - being in line with God. Attributed to people and God. Robust (systems) - the degree to which a system remains effective under varying environmental conditions Sentience - the ability to experience qualia State of Being - a hypothetical or real comprehensive state of the universe with specific time boundaries (single instant, duration, or infinite), includes all measurable variables - physical, mental, spiritual, and otherwise Strategy - methods to defeat entity with undefined time durations, resource categories instead of discrete, unsaturated bayseian/option trees, accomodates calc limitations Straw man - an argument that has been modified to make it easily refutable Socratic Method - learning by asking questions Sound (argument) - either that the premises are true or that both the premises are true and the syllogism is valid. I forget which and I have no internet. Soliphisim - if a person is sure of anything, they're sure their mind exists Subjectivism (Moreland) - moral relativism (true/false based on variable) for individuals and societies Supernatural - being more than purely physical, possibly breaking the laws of science Syntax - a set of rules used for written communication to form sentences and stuff. Used in normal human language and in software. Tactics - to accomplish objectives smaller than the broad 'defeat the enemy', typically with time clearly defined, dicrete quantities, fully defined procedures/option trees Taxonomy - the science and practice of classification Taxidermy - to make dead animals look pretty Tautology - a statement which is true because of the definitions of the language. E.g. all math and propositional logic Teleology - making explanations via the purpose, e.g. pragmatic vs. correspondent Telos (greek) - end/goal/purpose/why, deprativty of reason why chain Thomistic Synthesis (Hudec) - to synthesize/put ideas together, from Thomas Aquinas Time independence (linguistics) - verbs which do not connotate time Tolerance (Moreland) - classic/contemporary don't hurt/accept all other ideas Topology - the study of shapes and spaces, e.g. Mobius strips Typology - classification Truth (Tonkinson) - that which we rely upon, use in arguments, etc. Has no connotation of the source (e.g. source Correspondent Truth) Unjust - contraditory to the users moral system. Not neccessarily the logical opposite of Just because neutral states of being may exist in some moral systems Vacuous Truth - a statement which asserts a property of an empty set, or a manifestation of a false proposition Valid - if the premises are true, the conclusion is true. Logically correct. Value - heuristic measure, absolute or comparative evaluations of states of being, arbitrary or derived from the top tiers of a belief system such as God, Science. Value System - a set of values, typically held by a person, synonymous with Moral System Variable - a mathematical Tensor (in other words, any sort of number or system of numbers you'd like), measurable or otherwise, used to describe States of Being Vision - a world state, usually in the possible future, usually good or ideal Worldview - set of highest order beliefs Wrong - the logical opposite of Right. See Right. Equivalent to Bad Zoe (Lewis) - God-life essence Zombie (Philosophical) - a gendaken to prove mind separate from body, imagine a machine that behaves exactly as a human but with no consciousness