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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: "Literal Comprehension"
Split Justification: Literal comprehension, while aiming for the explicit meaning, is fundamentally processed through two distinct input modalities: visual (written language) and auditory (spoken language). The cognitive mechanisms for decoding and understanding orthographic symbols differ significantly from those for phonological sounds, making this a fundamental and mutually exclusive dichotomy that comprehensively covers all forms of verbal literal comprehension.
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From: "Literal Comprehension of Spoken Language"
Split Justification: Literal comprehension of spoken language fundamentally involves understanding the explicit meaning of individual words and phrases (lexical units) as they are heard, and understanding the explicit meaning derived from the grammatical relations and syntactic structure that connect those words within the utterance. These two components are distinct yet essential for full literal comprehension.
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From: "Literal Comprehension of Spoken Lexical Meaning"
Split Justification: Literal comprehension of a spoken word involves understanding both its primary denotative referent (the core concept or entity it points to) and the semantic features (the inherent attributes or properties) that constitute and differentiate that referent's meaning. These two aspects represent distinct, yet complementary, components of literal lexical understanding.
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From: "Semantic Feature Comprehension"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the comprehension of inherent attributes or qualities of a concept (properties, e.g., "a bird has feathers") from the comprehension of its typical actions, roles, or uses (functions, e.g., "a bird flies"). Both categories represent fundamental, literal semantic features contributing to lexical meaning.
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From: "Comprehension of Function-Based Semantic Features"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between understanding functions that involve direct, tangible interaction or physical actions within the world (e.g., 'a knife for cutting') and functions that operate on a non-physical, conceptual, intellectual, or communicative level (e.g., 'a word for conveying meaning'). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover all possible function-based semantic features, as any function can be characterized by its primary manifestation as either physical or abstract.
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From: "Comprehension of Abstract Function-Based Features"
Split Justification: This split differentiates between understanding abstract function-based features that primarily describe stable conditions, attributes, or properties (qualities/states), and those that primarily describe dynamic changes, sequences of events, or operations (processes/actions). Together, these two categories comprehensively cover the range of abstract concepts defined by their function.
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Topic: "Comprehension of Abstract Functional Qualities and States" (W5959)