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implicational
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meditation
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A-type conflict
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noun
- The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
- An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
- The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
- The state of being impeached.
verb
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- expect, believe, or suppose
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- imagine or visualize
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- have or formulate in the mind
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
noun
verb
- To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
- To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
- To be presumptuous; with on, upon, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).
- With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission.
verb
- To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
- To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
noun
- An axiom.
- Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
- A requirement; a prerequisite.
- A fundamental element; a basic principle.
adj
noun
- An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
- A dialog or plot event that causes a character to reveal his or her beliefs and motivations.
- A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial.
verb
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
noun
verb
- To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- To grow strong or stronger.
- To augment; to improve; to intensify.
noun
- An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
- Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
- The antecedent of a conditional statement.
noun
- A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
- A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
- An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
verb
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
verb
- To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
- To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
- To advise or offer expertise.
- To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
- To refer to (something) for information.
- To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
noun
verb
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
noun
- A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
- Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines
- The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
- The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
- A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
verb
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
noun
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- Moral rule or aspect.
verb
noun
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof
- a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
verb
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
noun
- Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
- The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang, a city of about 1.2 million people. File:The research station that houses Wang and his team is outside Lijiang.ogg
verb
noun
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- the visual percept of a region
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- the range of the eye
- a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof
- purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'
- graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
- outward appearance
verb
verb
- To form an opinion; to infer.
- To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- To judicially rule or determine.
- To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- To criticize or label another person or thing.
noun
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
verb
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- To understand.
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
verb
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
- An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
adj
- Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- Having no practical consequence or relevance.
verb
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
- To discuss or debate.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
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