n
An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.
adj
Of or relating to actualization.
n
(accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
n
One who acts first and thinks afterwards.
n
An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
n
A limited selection of examples which support or refute an argument, but which are not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
n
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
adj
Relating to attuition.
n
(pragmatics) A speech act by which an attitude is adopted.
adv
Intentionally, designed specifically for a given purpose.
n
(derogatory) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
n
(countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
n
Obsolete form of cognizance. [An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house.]
v
To make into an object of cognition (the process of acquiring knowledge through thought); to cogitate.
adj
Relating to compromise.
n
(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a concession; conceding
n
(obsolete) One who guesses or conjectures.
n
(obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
n
(linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
n
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
n
An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
adv
In terms of decisions or decision-making.
adj
Used or intended for a particular purpose
n
A person who deliberates
adj
(obsolete) Determined by destiny; fated.
n
Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
n
Quality of being elective.
adj
(business) Relating to the execution of an idea; putting something into practice.
n
(pragmatics, hermeneutics) A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission.
adj
(grammar, not comparable) Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener.
n
Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
n
(countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
n
Alternative form of factice [Vulcanized unsaturated vegetable or animal oil, used as a processing aid and property modifier in rubber.]
n
(originally Canada, US) An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact.
n
(idiomatic) The situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract.
adj
(dated, informal) Consisting principally of facts
n
An uninformed opinion based on one's feelings rather than known facts.
n
The event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of them. ᵂᵖ
adj
Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
n
Alternative form of groupthink [A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.]
n
A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
n
(psychology, by extension) Simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions.
adj
(comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
n
A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
n
A purposeful aim or goal; intent
n
(psychology) An idea dominating the mind and maintained despite evidence to the contrary; (loosely), an obsession.
v
(transitive) to conjecture or guess
adj
Pertaining to or being an injunction.
adj
Of or pertaining to intension.
adv
In an interrogatory fashion.
n
Existence as a particular (type of) thing with particular qualities.
adv
(colloquial, chiefly US) In a judgmatical way; like a judge, judiciously, with good judgment.
n
(chiefly philosophy) One who, or that which, justifies some belief or action.
n
(business) A business methodology that aims to provide a new way to think about how to organize human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste.
n
The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
n
Judgment, opinion, or view.
n
(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
n
A supposed tendency for people to become active in subjects that relate to their names.
n
Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
n
A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
adj
Being a preeminent example.
adj
(obsolete) effective; practical; operative [16th–17th c.]
n
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
n
A positive result of a test.
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
n
(psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
adj
(obsolete) Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
n
(plural only) The positive and negative attributes of arguments.
n
(obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
n
(figuratively, informal) An enigmatic, inscrutable, or mysterious person or thing; an enigma, a riddle.
n
Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
n
An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
n
(obsolete) representation; likeness
n
(obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
adv
In a selectable manner; controlled by selection.
adv
By means of selection; selectively.
n
Providing information about oneself in response to a questionnaire, survey, etc.
n
interview in which the same person asks and responds to the questions
v
To monitor itself or oneself.
n
A review of one's own work or progress.
v
To make a choice for oneself.
n
A function by which a machine can test its own operation.
n
(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
adj
Signifying something; carrying meaning.
n
The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
adj
Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
n
(countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
adj
Very select; highly exclusive.
n
Reflection; thought; posit.
adj
of, related to, or suggesting the quality of a surrogate
n
That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
adv
By means of or in terms of a will.
n
(Synergistic Kinesiology) A negative, suppressive command knowingly or unknowingly installed by a second person in the right Wernicke's area of a person's brain. It is worded from the point of view of the second person, who originally said it.
adj
(philosophy, of an action) Pursued after evaluating its consequences and consideration of the various means to achieve it.
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