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That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.
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(uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
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(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
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(psychology) A supposed form of apprehension midway between sensation in animals and perception in human beings.
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In an authoritarian manner.
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(law) A person connected through cognation.
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The process of consciously thinking about an experience or behavior.
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The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
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Process or action of cognizing.
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Alternative form of cognising [An act of cognition.]
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A theory that regards thinking as a form of internal communication rather than an entirely different operation.
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Relating to, or formed by conception
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Of or relating to conception.
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Alternative form of conative [Of or pertaining to a striving action.]
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The study of consciousness.
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(biochemistry) simultaneous recognition of two entities
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(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
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The version of oneself that one experiences being in a dream.
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Obsolete form of emphatical. [emphatic]
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Relating to excogitation.
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In the psychology of Sigmund Freud, part of the mind that is available to the conscious if mentally summoned, contrasted with the unconscious, which is not directly accessible.
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A semantic paradox of self-reference, where, supposing that "autological" means "self-describing" and "heterological" means "not self-describing", then "heterological" itself cannot be meaningfully classified as either of the two.
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Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
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Conceived or envisioned in the mind.
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Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation.
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Restricted entirely to the mind or a given domain; internal; subjective.
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(philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
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(philosophy) The characteristic of a mental state whereby it is about something, which relates to mental states in an analogous way as meaning relates to a word.
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Between acts of perception.
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(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states
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A cognitive bias by which people wrongly think that they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating other people's introspections as unreliable.
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authoritatively; dogmatically.
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Perception created in the mind that is not physically present.
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Someone's understanding of how a system works.
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The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
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A person's feelings about the wider society and world they live in, and their place within it; a worldview, outlook.
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The understanding or assumption of a person's mental state by the observation of their behaviour
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(philosophy) the act of thinking about thinking; sentience
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Of or relating to a level of thought that can contemplate the state of being conscious.
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A type of metacognition, encompassing both the introspective knowledge of one's own memory capabilities (and strategies that can aid memory) and the processes involved in memory self-monitoring.
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Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally
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(philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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The flow, course, progression, or outflow of one's thinking or thoughts; thought-process.
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Resembling or characteristic of a mind; capable of thought etc.
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The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
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Of or relating to memory.
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The way in which a person tends to think based on experience, beliefs, learning and reason.
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In a moralizing fashion.
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(neuroscience) The neurologically defined degrees of consciousness.
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The "mind-set" of a society, culture, or group -- as in Homer's use in the third verse of the Odyssey.
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(psychology) The understanding (typically developed during early infancy) that an object still exists even when it disappears from sight, or other senses.
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A method of analysis for the Rorschach test invented by Zygmunt A. Piotrowski.
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(psychology) The cognitive sensation of an emotional experience.
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(psychology) (of memories) that one is not aware of, but which can be recalled through conscious effort
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A state prior to the development of consciousness.
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In a prefectorial manner.
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(philosophy) According to Alfred North Whitehead, a type of universally acting perception that is not limited to living, self-conscious beings, and which involves an interconnectedness of the observer and the observed.
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In a prehistoric manner.
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The quality of being a protagonist.
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Apparently, but not actually, early
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Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
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Connected with recognition.
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The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind; the idea that thought is a reflection of reality, rather than something created by the mind.
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In a revelatory manner.
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(narratology) A literary device in which the author writes himself or herself into the story as a character.
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An introspective recounting of a person's development.
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An story or account specific to oneself.
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The process by which people give meaning to experience.
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(obsolete) speculatory; speculative
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The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.
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A subordinate self, one making up part of a whole self.
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(psychology) The ability to form an opinion about what other people are thinking.
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A manifestation of the consciousness of an individual or group
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Resembling the process of thought.
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The primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.
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Any character who acts as a catalyst for the detective protagonist's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that is privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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(figuratively) A person's attitude and way of thinking as compared to another person's.
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