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  2. Duck test - Wikipedia

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    If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual characteristics. It is sometimes used to counter abstruse arguments that something might not be what it appears to be.

  3. Rabbit–duck illusion - Wikipedia

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    You may also say "it's a rabbit–duck", which, for Wittgenstein, is a perceptual report. [ 5 ] Thomas Kuhn used the rabbit–duck illusion as a metaphor for revolutionary change in science , illustrating the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.

  4. The same is generally true for other animals having their young touched by humans as well, with the possible exception of rabbits (as rabbits will sometimes abandon their nest after an event they perceive as traumatizing). [56] Eating rice, yeast, or Alka-Seltzer does not cause birds to explode and is rarely fatal.

  5. Great Hippocampus Question - Wikipedia

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    The Great Hippocampus Question was a 19th-century scientific controversy about the anatomy of ape and human uniqueness. The dispute between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen became central to the scientific debate on human evolution that followed Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species.

  6. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is not opposite day, but if you say it is a normal day it would be considered a normal day, which contradicts the fact that it has previously been stated that it is an opposite day. Richard's paradox : We appear to be able to use simple English to define a decimal expansion in a way that is self-contradictory.

  7. Aggressive mimicry - Wikipedia

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    Cercaria mirabilis, a trematode, has an especially large larval stage, a cercaria, which looks much like a small crustacean or mosquito larva. It mimics the locomotory behavior of such animals, allowing it to be eaten by predaceous fish. [39] Another parasitic trematode example is seen in a terrestrial setting.

  8. Obscurantism - Wikipedia

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    In the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet was a political scientist who correctly perceived obscurantism as a contributing cause of the French Revolution in 1789.. In restricting education and knowledge to a ruling class, obscurantism is anti-democratic in its components of anti-intellectualism and social elitism, which exclude the majority of the people, deemed unworthy of knowing the ...

  9. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Blue–red contrast demonstrating depth perception effects 3 Layers of depths "Rivers, Valleys & Mountains". Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red–blue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images.