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Certain mechanical factors of language function, such as response to stimuli, are evident in both humans and animals; however, Chomsky cites several 17th-century Cartesian experiments that show that the creative aspect of language is specific only to human beings.
A chart with descriptions of each Myers–Briggs personality type and the four dichotomies central to the theory. The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire that makes pseudoscientific claims [6] to categorize individuals into 16 distinct "psychological types" or "personality types".
Chinese astrology — also known as Shu Xiang — dates back more than 2,000 years. Similar to traditional Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac has 12 zodiac signs that can determine a person's ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Model of the human psyche used as a personality typology For other uses, see Enneagram. Enneagram figure The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram, is a pseudoscientific model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected ...
Discrete emotion theory is the claim that there is a small number of core emotions.For example, Silvan Tomkins (1962, 1963) concluded that there are nine basic affects which correspond with what we come to know as emotions: interest, enjoyment, surprise, distress, fear, anger, shame, dissmell (reaction to bad smell) and disgust.
Descartes originally claimed that consciousness requires an immaterial soul, which interacts with the body via the pineal gland of the brain. [2] Dennett says that, when the dualism is removed, what remains of Descartes' original model amounts to imagining a tiny theater in the brain where a homunculus (small person), now physical, performs the task of observing all the sensory data projected ...
Cartesian anxiety, a hope that studying the world will give us unchangeable knowledge of ourselves and the world; Cartesian circle, a potential mistake in reasoning ...
Juan Vallet de Goytisolo, Plenitud de perspectiva y dimensión de los saberes en el pensamiento de Francisco Elías de Tejada, [in:] Verbo 171-172 (1979), pp. 13–19; Silvio Vitale, La Napoli Ispanica, [in:] Ángel Sánchez de la Torre (ed.), Francisco Elías de Tejada, Madrid 1995, ISBN 8486926890, pp. 127–133