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  2. Binary opposition - Wikipedia

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    The political (rather than analytic or conceptual) critique of binary oppositions is an important part of third wave feminism, post-colonialism, post-anarchism, and critical race theory, which argue that the perceived binary dichotomy between man/woman, civilized/uncivilised, and white/black have perpetuated and legitimized societal power structures favoring a specific majority.

  3. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  4. Monosemy - Wikipedia

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    A monosemous analysis assumes that any sign in a sign system signals one value within its paradigm, with a substance that arises out of its diachronic history. [ 5 ] There are some cases where a word genuinely has two meanings that cannot be brought under a singular, more abstract sense, but these are better understood as instances of homonymy .

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The opposite bias, of not attributing feelings or thoughts to another person, is dehumanised perception, [23] a type of objectification. Attentional bias, the tendency of perception to be affected by recurring thoughts. [24] Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.

  6. Conformity - Wikipedia

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    In the case of private acceptance, the person conforms to the group by changing their beliefs and attitudes. Thus, this represents a true change of opinion to match the majority. [24] Another type of social response, which does not involve conformity with the majority of the group, is called convergence. In this type of social response, the ...

  7. Historical revisionism - Wikipedia

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    In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of a historical account. [1] It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) scholarly views or narratives regarding a historical event, timespan, or phenomenon by introducing contrary evidence or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved.

  8. Unity of opposites - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for what is opposite is therefore something a priori. [ citation needed ] In response to the original conception by Friedrich Schelling of the dialectic in his philosophical work System of Transcendental Idealism , Samuel Taylor Coleridge formed the concept of "esemplasticity", which is the ability of the imagination to unify ...

  9. Historical dictionary - Wikipedia

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    For some languages, like Sanskrit and Greek, the historical dictionary (in the sense of a word-list explaining the meanings of words that were obsolete at the time of their compilation) was the first form of dictionary developed; though not being scholarly historical dictionaries in the modern sense, they did give a sense of semantic change over time.