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  2. Arbitrariness - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". It is also used to refer to a choice made ...

  3. Arbitrary - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrariness; From an adjective: This is a redirect from an adjective, which is a word or phrase that describes a noun, to a related word or topic.

  4. Infinitism - Wikipedia

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    The Principle of Avoiding Arbitrariness (PAA) is stated as follows: "For all x, if a person, S, has a justification for x, then there is some reason, r1, available to S for x; and there is some reason, r2, available to S for r1; etc." [3] PAA says that in order to avoid arbitrariness, for any proposition x to be justified for an epistemological ...

  5. Thrownness - Wikipedia

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    Awareness and acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of Dasein is characterized as a state of "thrown-ness" in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The very fact of one's own existence is a manifestation of thrown-ness.

  6. Animal language - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrariness: There is usually no rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning. [6] For example, there is nothing intrinsically house-like about the word "house". Discreteness: Language is composed of small, separate, and repeatable parts (discrete units, e.g. morphemes) that are used in combination to create meaning.

  7. Category:Spanish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves.Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase.

  8. Hispanicization - Wikipedia

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    It is relatively rarely used as a synonym for "Castilianization" (castellanización) i.e. the historical process whereby speakers of minority Spanish languages such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Astur-Leonese or Aragonese are linguistically assimilated and progressively abandon their language for Spanish. Since all of the aforementioned ...

  9. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

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    Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances. Many of these words end with the absolutive suffix "-tl" in Nahuatl.