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  2. Suggestion - Wikipedia

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    Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious [1] effort.

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Query expansion - Wikipedia

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    Finding synonyms of words, and searching for the synonyms as well; Finding semantically related words (e.g. antonyms, meronyms, hyponyms, hypernyms) Finding all the various morphological forms of words by stemming each word in the search query; Fixing spelling errors and automatically searching for the corrected form or suggesting it in the results

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  6. Ad hominem - Wikipedia

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    Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are usually fallacious.Often currently this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself.

  7. Patriomanis - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms; synonyms of species: P. americana: Patriomanis americanus (Emry, 1970) ... It had long digits and a prehensile tail, suggesting that it was arboreal, and ...

  8. Suggestive question - Wikipedia

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    A suggestive question is one that implies that a certain answer should be given in response, [1] [2] or falsely presents a presupposition in the question as accepted fact. [3] [4] Such a question distorts the memory thereby tricking the person into answering in a specific way that might or might not be true or consistent with their actual feelings, and can be deliberate or unintentional.

  9. Synectics - Wikipedia

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    Synectics is a problem solving methodology that stimulates thought processes of which the subject may be unaware. This method was developed by George M. Prince (1918–2009) [1] and William J.J. Gordon, originating in the Arthur D. Little Invention Design Unit in the 1950s.