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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: "Analytical Processing"
Split Justification: Analytical thought engages distinct symbolic systems: abstract logic and mathematics (**Quantitative/Logical Reasoning**) versus structured language (**Linguistic/Verbal Reasoning**).
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From: "Linguistic/Verbal Reasoning"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the receptive aspects of linguistic reasoning, involving the understanding and interpretation of spoken or written language, from the expressive aspects, which involve the formulation and production of spoken or written language. These are distinct, fundamental processes that together encompass all facets of verbal reasoning.
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From: "Verbal Expression"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the construction of logically sound arguments (Structuring an Argument) from the use of stylistic and persuasive language to influence an audience (Rhetorical Technique).
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From: "Rhetorical Technique"
Split Justification: This split distinguishes rhetorical techniques that primarily appeal to reason and clarity (such as explanatory analogies) from those that appeal to emotion, character, and authority (such as ethos and pathos).
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From: "Ethos/Pathos Appeals"
Split Justification: The parent node explicitly references two distinct rhetorical appeals. This split separates these two fundamental and individually significant appeals, which differ in their focus (speaker's character/credibility vs. audience's emotions) and are mutually exclusive in their primary mechanism, while together comprehensively covering the scope of the parent concept.
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From: "Pathos Appeals"
Split Justification: Pathos appeals aim to evoke an emotional response in an audience, and these emotions can be fundamentally categorized by their valence as either positive (e.g., hope, joy, inspiration) or negative (e.g., fear, anger, sadness). This dichotomy covers the full spectrum of emotional influence.
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From: "Appeals to Negative Affect"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between rhetorical appeals that evoke negative emotions primarily concerning the audience's own person, actions, or potential outcomes (e.g., fear for oneself, guilt, shame, regret) versus those that evoke negative emotions directed towards entities, situations, or ideas external to the audience's immediate self (e.g., anger at an injustice, disgust with an opponent, sadness for others' plight, contempt for a policy). This provides a clear, mutually exclusive, and exhaustive categorization based on the primary target or focus of the negative affect.
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From: "Negative Affect Directed Towards Self"
Split Justification: This split differentiates between negative affect arising from specific actions, behaviors, or inactions (conduct) versus negative affect stemming from one's perceived intrinsic worth, character, or fundamental self (identity). Negative feelings like guilt and regret relate to conduct, while shame, self-loathing, and low self-esteem typically relate to identity.
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From: "Negative Affect from Identity"
Split Justification: This dichotomy differentiates whether the primary source of the negative affect concerning one's identity originates from the individual's own internal assessment, self-judgment, or perceived discrepancies (Self-Perception), versus originating from how one's identity is viewed, judged, or challenged by others or societal standards (Social Perception). While the affect is directed towards the self in both cases, the impetus for that affect related to identity is distinct.
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Topic: "Negative Affect from Self-Perception of Identity" (W5623)