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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Cognitive Sphere"
Split Justification: Cognition operates via deliberate, logical steps (**Analytical Processing**) and faster, intuitive pattern-matching (**Intuitive/Associative Processing**). (Ref: Dual Process Theory)
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From: "Intuitive/Associative Processing"
Split Justification: Intuitive/associative processing fundamentally operates in two distinct, yet complementary, modes: either by rapidly identifying and utilizing pre-existing patterns and associations (often automatically and implicitly), or by forming new, non-obvious connections that lead to emergent insights and novel ideas. These two categories comprehensively cover the scope of how this cognitive function processes information.
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From: "Pattern Matching & Implicit Activation"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on direct sensory input (e.g., recognizing faces, sounds, immediate environmental threats) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on abstract meaning, categories, semantic knowledge, and higher-level schema (e.g., understanding language, social cues, expert intuition). These two categories delineate distinct levels of information abstraction in pattern processing, comprehensively covering the scope of how pre-existing patterns are implicitly identified and utilized.
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From: "Conceptual Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on abstract factual knowledge, semantic networks, and categories (knowing 'what' things are) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on skills, rules, and action sequences (knowing 'how' to do things). These two categories delineate distinct forms of conceptual knowledge processing, comprehensively covering the scope of how abstract patterns are implicitly identified and activated.
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From: "Declarative Conceptual Pattern Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on general knowledge, facts, and concepts independent of specific personal experience (e.g., knowing the capital of France) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on specific past events, personal experiences, and their associated contexts (e.g., recalling details of a specific birthday party). These two categories delineate distinct forms of declarative conceptual knowledge processing, comprehensively covering the scope of how abstract patterns are implicitly identified and activated.
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From: "Semantic Conceptual Pattern Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on the inherent attributes, characteristics, and definitions that define individual concepts (e.g., recognizing 'a bird has feathers', 'a square has four equal sides') from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on the connections, classifications, and associations between different concepts within a broader semantic network (e.g., recognizing 'birds are a type of animal', 'squares are a type of polygon', 'the relationship between supply and demand'). These two categories comprehensively cover how general knowledge patterns are implicitly identified and activated, focusing either on the defining 'what' of a concept or its 'how it connects' to others.
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From: "Inter-Conceptual Relations"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on hierarchical structures, classifications, and category membership (e.g., 'X is a type of Y', 'A is a part of B') from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on other forms of association, co-occurrence, or thematic links (e.g., 'X is associated with Y', 'X causes Y', 'X has Y'). These two categories comprehensively cover how general knowledge patterns involving connections between concepts are implicitly identified and activated, differentiating between relationships of inclusion/subsumption and all other forms of semantic relatedness.
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From: "Hierarchical Inter-Conceptual Relations"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on class inclusion, categorization, and subsumption (e.g., 'X is a type of Y', 'a dog is a mammal') from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on compositional structure, meronymy, and part-whole relationships (e.g., 'A is a part of B', 'a wheel is part of a car'). These two categories comprehensively cover how hierarchical conceptual patterns are implicitly identified and activated, distinguishing between relationships of classification and relationships of composition.
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From: "Taxonomic Hierarchies (Is-A Relations)"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on whether a concept fits the defining attributes or rules of a higher category (e.g., identifying a 'triangle' as a 'polygon' due to its three-sided nature) from whether it is recognized as a member of a category due to its similarity to a mental prototype or specific known examples (e.g., identifying a 'robin' as a 'bird' because it strongly resembles a typical bird). These two distinct cognitive mechanisms comprehensively cover the ways 'is-a' relations are implicitly identified and activated.
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From: "Prototype/Exemplar-Based Subsumption"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on similarity to an abstract, generalized mental representation or 'best example' (prototype) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of conceptual patterns based on similarity to a collection of specific, stored instances or known examples (exemplars). These two distinct cognitive mechanisms comprehensively cover the ways 'is-a' relations are implicitly identified and activated through similarity matching, thereby exhausting the scope of prototype/exemplar-based subsumption.
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Topic: "Prototype-Based Subsumption" (W5267)