a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.
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your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
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The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.of Cause
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Philosophy of science.The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Evidence and research, Argument and reasoning, Critical thinking.Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Evidence and research, Sources and evidence, Critical thinking, Philosophy of science.The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thoug…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy.That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Evidence and research, Argument and reasoning, Sources and evidence, Critical thinking, Philosophy of science.The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Evidence and research, Sources and evidence, Critical thinking, Philosophy of science.That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy.The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Argument and reasoning.One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Evidence and research, Sources and evidence, Critical thinking, Philosophy of science.An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a met…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, History, Evidence and research, Philosophy of science.an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, History, Evidence and research, Philosophy of science.The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Philosophy.(law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure; "a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Historical methods, Sources and evidence, Philosophy of science.Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.Approbation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.The act of castrating.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: basis, belief, disbelief, knowledge, base.Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
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