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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 Comprehension"
Split Justification: This split distinguishes between understanding the explicit, directly stated meaning of verbal information and understanding the unstated, implied, or deeper meaning that requires synthesis and deduction. These represent distinct levels of cognitive processing within overall verbal comprehension.
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From: "Inferential Comprehension"
Split Justification: This split divides inference into understanding unstated social meaning and intent (Pragmatic & Discourse Inference) and evaluating the structural soundness of an argument (Logical Analysis).
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From: "Logical Analysis"
Split Justification: Logical analysis operates by deriving specific certainties from general principles (Deductive Reasoning) or by forming probable generalizations from specific observations (Inductive Reasoning).
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From: "Inductive Reasoning"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates inductive reasoning into two fundamental forms: "Inductive Generalization" focuses on the process of forming general rules, categories, or principles from specific observations. "Inductive Explanation and Prediction" encompasses inferring causal relationships, developing explanatory hypotheses, and anticipating future events based on observed patterns and correlations. These two categories represent distinct cognitive goals of inductive reasoning, are largely mutually exclusive in their primary output, and together comprehensively cover the scope of inductive thought.
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From: "Inductive Generalization"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between inductive generalizations that primarily identify and articulate general patterns, trends, or properties observed in specific instances (descriptive) and those that propose underlying causes, mechanisms, or principles to explain why those patterns or phenomena occur (explanatory).
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From: "Explanatory Generalization"
Split Justification: Explanatory generalizations fundamentally seek to understand phenomena either by identifying their antecedent causes and underlying mechanisms (Causal) or by elucidating their purpose, role, or contribution to a larger system (Functional). These two categories represent distinct and comprehensive modes of explaining derived from inductive reasoning.
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From: "Functional Explanatory Generalization"
Split Justification: Functional explanations can be fundamentally differentiated by whether they generalize the underlying processes and causal mechanisms by which a function operates (how it works) or the ultimate goals, utilities, or outcomes that the function serves (what it is for).
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Topic: "Generalization of Functional Mechanisms" (W5863)