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absolute | An absolute is something that is perfect, complete, always true, something never to be doubted or questioned. |
accommodation | Accommodation is achieved when we can do the thinking needed to create a new schema or modify an old schema in order to explain a new experience. |
argument | There are the two parts of an argument. The conclusion, or main summary idea and the reasons given to support that idea. |
assimilation | Assimilation is achieved when we can integrate new experiences into existing schemas. |
certain | Certain is a characteristic of something fixed, assured, or inevitable. |
disequilibrium | The confusion and discomfort felt when a new experience cannot be integrated into existing schemas. |
equilibrium | A stable inner feeling of well being that we feel when our thinking enables us to modify or create a new schema that better explains our world. |
fact | A fact is something proven to be true, real, existing or to have existed. |
fiction | Fiction is an idea or story based on imagination rather than reality. |
objective/subjective | Objective is to be impartial, free of bias or prejudice. Subjective is to be swayed by bias or prejudice rather than facts and evidence. |
plausibility | This standard weighs the reasonability of a event or explanation. |
probability | This standard estimates the likelihood that an event occurred or will occur. |
reliability | This is another standard: that the data was confirmed to be fact by a reputable independent source. Reliability also means that the confirmation proved dependable over time. |
schema | Schemas are the mental files in which we store our explanations of experiences. |
thinking | Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering. |
verifiability | This is a standard for determining facts; that they can be tested and confirmed to be either true and/or in existence or past existence or not. |
verify | To verify is to test and confirm the truth, accuracy, or existence of something. |
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