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  2. Binary opposition - Wikipedia

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    In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and language. Binary opposition originated in Saussurean structuralist theory. [ 3 ] According to Ferdinand de Saussure , the binary opposition is the means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined in ...

  3. Extinct great apes such as Graecopithecus and Sahelanthropus tchadensis have been proposed as candidates for the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor (CHLCA), however, no fossil has yet conclusively been identified as the CHLCA. [174] [175] Humans are animals, despite the fact that the word animal is colloquially used as an antonym for human ...

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  5. Human - Wikipedia

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    The native English term man can refer to the species generally (a synonym for humanity) as well as to human males. It may also refer to individuals of either sex. [15] Despite the fact that the word animal is colloquially used as an antonym for human, [16] and contrary to a common biological misconception, humans are animals. [17]

  6. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Antonym to sciens (Bazán 1972, Romeo 1979:64) Homo interreticulatus "buried-within-the-rectangle man" Used by philosopher David Bentley Hart to describe humanity lost within the screens of computers and other devices [26] Homo investigans "investigating man" Human curiosity and capability to learn by deduction, Werner Luck 1976 [citation needed]

  7. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  8. GEDÄCHTNISTECHNIKEN - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    Gedächtnistechniken 7 Der Autor Bisherige Publikationen (Auszug): • Das perfekte Namensgedächtnis, Gabal • Namen merken leicht gemacht: Zach Davis interviewt Boris Nikolai Konrad, Peoplebuilding

  9. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.