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  2. Argument from analogy - Wikipedia

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    One of Mill's examples involved an inference that some person is lazy from the observation that his or her sibling is lazy. According to Mill, sharing parents is not at all relevant to the property of laziness (although this in particular is an example of a faulty generalisation rather than a false analogy).

  3. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. [1]In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction.

  4. Similarity (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, spaces are symmetric. The distance between two points is the same regardless of which point you start from. However, psychological similarity is not symmetric. For example, we often prefer to state similarity in one direction. For example, it feels more natural to say that 101 is like 100 than to say that 100 is like 101.

  5. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Professor of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst and other critics have characterized anthroposophic medicine as having no basis in science, [95] pseudoscientific [96] and quackery. [97] Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products, including honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.

  6. Jingle-jangle fallacies - Wikipedia

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    An example of the jangle fallacy can be found in tests designed to assess emotional intelligence. Some of these tests measure merely personality or regular IQ -tests. [ 7 ] An example of the jingle fallacy is that personality and values are sometimes conflated and treated as the same construct. [ 8 ]

  7. AP Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology (also known as AP Psych) and its corresponding exam are part of the College Board's Advanced Placement Program. This course is tailored for students interested in the field of psychology and as an opportunity to earn Advanced Placement credit or exemption from a college -level psychology course.

  8. Homogeneity and heterogeneity - Wikipedia

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    Homogeneity and heterogeneity; only ' b ' is homogeneous Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.A homogeneous feature is uniform in composition or character (i.e., color, shape, size, weight, height, distribution, texture, language, income, disease, temperature, radioactivity, architectural design, etc.); one that is heterogeneous ...

  9. Type physicalism - Wikipedia

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    Type physicalism can now be understood to argue that there is an identity between types (any mental type is identical with some physical type), whereas token identity physicalism says that every token mental state/event/property is identical to some brain state/event/property.