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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: "Descriptive Generalization"
Split Justification: This split differentiates descriptive generalizations based on the fundamental nature of the information they consolidate and express. Quantitative Generalization focuses on summarizing numerical patterns, frequencies, measures, or statistical tendencies from observed data. Qualitative Generalization consolidates and describes common non-numerical attributes, characteristics, themes, or categories observed across instances. Together, they comprehensively cover how descriptive insights can be generalized from specific observations, ensuring mutual exclusivity in the primary mode of description.
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From: "Quantitative Generalization"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between generalizations drawn from quantities that are countable and have distinct, separate values (discrete) versus those drawn from quantities that can take any value within a range (continuous), forming a fundamental and exhaustive classification of quantitative data types being generalized.
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Topic: "Continuous Quantitative Generalization" (W6375)