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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 Positive Affect"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between rhetorical appeals that target positive emotional states and benefits primarily experienced by an individual (e.g., personal contentment, achievement, comfort, security) and those that focus on positive emotions derived from collective identity, communal well-being, shared goals, or interpersonal connection (e.g., social solidarity, group pride, altruistic satisfaction, familial affection). This covers the full range of positive affect appeals by categorizing them based on their primary locus of benefit or experience.
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From: "Appeals to Individual Positive Experience"
Split Justification: This split differentiates appeals based on the temporal orientation of the individual positive experience being leveraged – whether it is being felt in the immediate present or is recalled from the past or anticipated for the future.
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From: "Appeals to Present Positive Experience"
Split Justification: This dichotomy differentiates present positive experiences based on their primary mode of apprehension: direct physical sensation versus higher-order emotional states or intellectual gratification. Appeals focus either on immediate sensory input (e.g., taste, touch, sound) or on current internal states of well-being, comfort, or understanding.
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Topic: "Appeals to Present Emotional or Cognitive Satisfaction" (W6391)