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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 Written Text"
Split Justification: This split differentiates between comprehending the explicit meaning of individual lexical items (words) and comprehending the explicit meaning derived from how these words are grammatically arranged within sentences to form propositions. Both are essential components of literal comprehension of written text, covering the basic units of meaning and their combinatorial rules.
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From: "Understanding of Vocabulary and Word Meanings"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the understanding of a word's explicit, formal meaning (its definition) from the understanding of how that word is used in various contexts, including its connotations, subtle implications, and appropriate application. Both are essential, distinct, and comprehensive aspects of understanding vocabulary.
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From: "Understanding of Word Application and Nuance"
Split Justification: This dichotomy separates the comprehension of a word's literal, primary meaning and its appropriate usage (denotative application) from the understanding of its implied, associated, or emotional meanings and subtle distinctions in context (connotative nuance). Together, these two aspects comprehensively cover how words are applied and understood in their varying subtleties.
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From: "Understanding of Denotative Application"
Split Justification: This dichotomy distinguishes between understanding a word's denotative application when processing received language (receptive comprehension) versus understanding how to correctly apply a word denotatively when producing language (productive usage). This covers both fundamental modes of demonstrating understanding of application.
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From: "Understanding of Denotative Application (Receptive)"
Split Justification: The understanding of a word's denotative application can be fundamentally divided into two aspects. The first involves grasping the core, general concept or entity that a word denotes, understanding its direct referent irrespective of a specific, nuanced context. The second involves evaluating the suitability and precision of a word's denotative meaning within a particular, immediate context, where subtle distinctions between denotatively similar words may become relevant. These two aspects are mutually exclusive in focus (general reference vs. specific situational fit) and comprehensively cover the range of receptive denotative application.
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Topic: "Understanding of Contextual Denotative Appropriateness (Receptive)" (W6407)