This post is a list of definition posts for this blog. There are 142 definitions below (118 posts, not including 'information blog', 'organize', 'physics' and 'quantum mechanics'). I believe that making a definition is similar to archery. When we make a definition, we combine a collection of other concepts and attempt to hit the target meaning.
- A posteriori (knowledge): acquired through experience
- A priori (knowledge): acquired without experience
- Abstract (concept): attribute of existing in conceptual form
- Abstract (art): attribute of art that does not attempt to look like realistic objects
- Adjective: word or phrase that signifies an attribute
- Analysis: detailed examination of something with the purpose of drawing conclusions
- Analytic (knowledge): meaning of a concept
- Anecdote: short narrative about an incident
- Argument: a reason or set of reasons meant to support a belief
- Art: expression of imagination and/or ability
- Aspect: specific attribute
- Attribute: identifiable part of something
- Axiom: principle believed to be certain
- Being (self): essential self
- Being (ontology): way something is
- Belief: representation accepted to be true
- Bias: unreasonable inclination that prevents reasonable judgement
- Cause: something that gives rise to something else
- Characteristic: typical attribute
- Clear: attribute of being easy to understand
- Concept: mental general representation
- Conclusion: representation reached after thinking
- Condition: non-permanent attribute
- Consciousness: faculty that enables a being to be aware of experience
- Counting: process of reciting numbers in order
- Data: rudimentary information
- Definition: statement of the meaning of a word
- Description: linguistic representation
- Detail: information about something
- Economics: study the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services
- Emergence: process of a phenomena coming into existence
- Emotion: state of mind concerned with good, bad or duty
- Entity: something that has a distinct and independent existence
- Epistemology: study of knowledge (definition needs revision)
- Establishment: process of causing something indefinitely into existence
- Evidence: information that is relevant for determining the truth
- Exact: attribute of being precisely accurate
- Experience: totality of past and present sense data
- Experiment: event that potentially tests a hypothesis
- Explanation (cause): description of why something happened or happens
- Explanation (clarity): description that makes something clear
- Fact (strict): something known with absolute certainty
- Fact (not strict): something known with absolute certainty with the exception of hallucinations and extreme coincidences
- Faith: belief in something without clear evidence
- Feeling (intuition): unclear reason
- Feeling (emotion): emotional response
- Form: general representation
- Free will: faculty that enables a being to make independent choices
- Fundamental: core principle
- God: conscious being who created reality
- Grammar: system of rules for the combination and formation of words
- Guess: representation based on little or no evidence
- Hypothesis: uncertain representation to be investigated
- Idea: original thought
- Ideology: system of beliefs common to a group of people
- Imaginary: exist only in the mind
- Inexplicable: attribute of lacking an explanation
- Inference: belief based on indirect evidence
- Information: something that educates
- Information blog: website with posts displaying facts, figures and pieces of information with minimal or no commentary
- Intelligence: ability to learn, understand and reason
- Intuition: process of forming beliefs based on unclear reasons
- Justified: attribute of being supported by a good reason
- Knowledge: correctly justified true belief
- Language: written or spoken symbols
- Literal: according to the primary meaning of language
- Logic: process of forming conclusions using objective reasons or premises
- Mathematics: study of numbers, lines and shapes
- Meaning (representation): underlying representation
- Meaning (significance): underlying significance
- Measurement: numerical observation based on a standard unit
- Memory: faculty that enables an entity to store and retrieve information and data
- Metaphysics (transcendental): study of reality outside of matter and space
- Metaphysics (fundamental): study of the fundamental principles of reality
- Mind: faculty that enables a being to have beliefs, memory, sense replications, emotions and a subconscious
- Name: word that designates something
- Noun: word or group of words that refer to something
- Number: word that represents a quantity of units
- Object (physical): physical entity
- Object (phenomena): something that can be perceived
- Objective: attribute of not being open to interpretation
- Observation: perception that is recorded or attentively noticed
- Ontology: study of the way something is
- Opinion: belief not based on proof
- Organize: to arrange something into categories or an order
- Pattern: something that recurs consistently
- Perception: conscious sense datum
- Phenomenology: study of immediate perception
- Phenomenon: something that can be perceived
- Philosophy: study fundamental nature
- Physics: study of matter, motion, force, space and time
- Postmodernism: intellectual movement that foresees a major shift in artistic or epistemological values away from 20th century values
- Predicate: part of a sentence that describes a subject
- Principle: proposition that contributes to the structure of a topic
- Proof: evidence that establishes near absolute certainty
- Property: fundamental attribute
- Proposition: representation to be considered
- Quality: non-quantitative attribute
- Quantum mechanics: study of subatomic processes based on properties that consist of indivisible units
- Question: sentence that requests knowledge
- Reason (method): process of forming conclusions using explicit justifications or premises
- Reason (support): something intended to support the accuracy of a proposition
- Reason (explanation): something that explains something else - 100
- Reality: actual state of affairs
- Religion: belief in or worship toward a divine supernatural power
- Representation: something that stands for the actual thing
- Science (knowledge): method of establishing knowledge through controlled experiments
- Science (matter): study of any subject related to physics, chemistry or biology
- Science (first version): systematic analysis of reality
- Sense: faculty that retrieves data
- Sentence: unified segment of words that has at least one subject-predicate pair and follows grammatical rules
- Sign: something that indicates something else
- Something: unspecified object, event, thought, attribute or transcendental entity
- Soul: conscious transcendental being
- Statement: concise declaration of something
- Statistic: numerical information
- Statistics: study of analyzing numerical data
- Subconscious: part of the mind one is unaware of
- Subject (knowledge): branch of knowledge
- Subject (sentence): part of a sentence being described
- Subject (perception): being that perceives
- Subjective: attribute of being open to interpretation
- Symbol: something that represents a concept
- Syntax: system of rules for the combination of words
- Synthetic (knowledge): extends beyond the meaning of a concept
- System: set of interrelated things that form a unified whole
- Theory: representation that attempts to explain something
- Thing: physical object, event, thought, attribute or transcendental entity
- Think (belief): tentatively believe
- Think (reason): attempt to use one's mind rationally
- Think (attention): focus one's attention on something
- Thought: conscious belief, memory retrieval, sense replication or emotion
- Time: process by which reality moves from past, present, to future
- Trait: attribute that does not exist consistently among members of the same group
- True: attribute of being an accurate representation of reality
- Truth (true): accurate representation of reality
- Truth (reality): actual state of affairs
- Understanding (explanation): condition of knowing the explanation of something
- Understanding (competence): condition of having competent knowledge in something
- Verb: word or phrase that signifies an action
- What: question word used to ask for the predicate's actual subject
- Word: symbol consisting of letters, phonetic sounds or conventional gestures
