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  2. Antithesis - Wikipedia

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    Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.

  3. Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia

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    Relevant items of cognition include peoples' actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance exists without signs but surfaces through psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of conflicting things. According to this theory, when an action or idea is ...

  4. War of ideas - Wikipedia

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    "The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy" by Walid Phares (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.) ISBN 0-230-60255-X "Public Diplomacy: Ideas for the War of Ideas" by Peter Krause and Stephen Van Evera,Middle East Policy Council [1] The War of Ideas Website "Winning the War of Ideas Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine" by Robert R. Reilly

  5. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    Antithesis involves putting together two opposite ideas in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. [12] [page needed] Contrast is emphasised by parallel but similar structures of the opposing phrases or clauses to draw the listeners' or readers' attention. Compared to chiasmus, the ideas must be opposites. Some rise by sin, and some by ...

  6. Ambivalence - Wikipedia

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    If opposing values are activated by the same object they are likely to clash upon encounter. Conflicted value items do not need to come from the same category, but to be considered a contributor of ambivalence, discordance must occur. The attitudinal object of women in the workplace could, for example, be affected by religious or political values.

  7. Dialectic - Wikipedia

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    The outcome of such a dialectic might be the refutation of a relevant proposition, or a synthesis, a combination of the opposing assertions, or a qualitative improvement of the dialogue. [2] [3] The term dialectic owes much of its prestige to its role in the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, during the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

  8. Counterpropaganda - Wikipedia

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    The United States attempted to use counterpropaganda against German accusations that the Soviet Union committed the Nemmersdorf massacre. When Germany forced the Soviet Union out of the city in October 1944 they found twenty-four dead including twelve women, two teenage girls, a baby, six old men and three school children.

  9. List of philosophical problems - Wikipedia

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    The hard problem of consciousness is the question of what consciousness is and why we have consciousness as opposed to being philosophical zombies. The adjective "hard" is to contrast with the "easy" consciousness problems, which seek to explain the mechanisms of consciousness ("why" as compared with "how", or final cause versus efficient cause ...