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  2. Paraphyly - Wikipedia

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    The term paraphyly, or paraphyletic, derives from the two Ancient Greek words παρά (pará), meaning "beside, near", and φῦλον (phûlon), meaning "genus, species", [2] [3] and refers to the situation in which one or several monophyletic subgroups of organisms (e.g., genera, species) are left apart from all other descendants of a unique common ancestor.

  3. Derailment (thought disorder) - Wikipedia

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    In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking [1]) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.

  4. Non-monotonic logic - Wikipedia

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    A non-monotonic logic is a formal logic whose entailment relation is not monotonic. In other words, non-monotonic logics are devised to capture and represent defeasible inferences , i.e., a kind of inference in which reasoners draw tentative conclusions, enabling reasoners to retract their conclusion(s) based on further evidence. [ 1 ]

  5. Autapomorphy - Wikipedia

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    This definition assigns species on the basis of amount of divergence associated with reproductive incompatibility, which is measured essentially by number of autapomorphies. [6] This grouping method is often referred to as the " monophyletic species concept" or the "phylospecies" concept and was popularized by D.E. Rosen in 1979.

  6. Talk:Polyphyly - Wikipedia

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    2 Examples of Polyphyly. 6 comments. 3 Wrong definitions of polyphyly. 3 comments. 4 Why have three articles? 1 comment. 5 Incorrect definition. ... 8 Definition ...

  7. Interpretative phenomenological analysis - Wikipedia

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    Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative form of psychology research. IPA has an idiographic focus, which means that instead of producing generalization findings, it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given situation .

  8. Monophyly - Wikipedia

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    The term monophyly, or monophyletic, derives from the two Ancient Greek words μόνος (mónos), meaning "alone, only, unique", and φῦλον (phûlon), meaning "genus, species", [4] [5] and refers to the fact that a monophyletic group includes organisms (e.g., genera, species) consisting of all the descendants of a unique common ancestor.

  9. Neutral monism - Wikipedia

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    Neutral monism is an umbrella term for a class of metaphysical theories in the philosophy of mind, concerning the relation of mind to matter.These theories take the fundamental nature of reality to be neither mental nor physical; in other words it is "neutral".