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Even the term "Nevermore," he says, is based on logic following the "unity of effect." The sounds in the vowels in particular, he writes, have more meaning than the definition of the word itself. He had previously used words like "Lenore" for the same effect. The raven itself, Poe says, is meant to become symbolic by the end of the poem.
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The Diderot effect is a phenomenon that occurs when acquiring a new possession leads to a spiral of consumption that results in the acquisition of even more possessions. [1] [2] In other words, buying something new can cause a chain reaction leading to one buying more and more things. Each new item makes one feel like one needs other things to ...
The good effect must be caused by the action at least as immediately (in terms of causality, not—necessarily—temporally) as the bad effect. It is impermissible to attempt to bring about an indirect good with a direct evil. [4] Also formulated as: The means-end condition. The bad effect must not be the means by which one achieves the good ...
Chapter I: General Characteristics of Crowds—Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity; Chapter II: The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds; Chapter III: The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds; Chapter IV: A Religious Shape Assumed By All the Convictions of Crowds; Book II: The Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds
Distinguished contemporaries, foreigners and Frenchmen, have already attacked, both in theory and in practice, that fundamental law of the pseudo-Aristotelian code. Indeed, the combat was not likely to be a long one. At the first blow it cracked, so worm-eaten was that timber of the old scholastic hovel! [7] [8]
The law of effect, or Thorndike's law, is a psychology principle advanced by Edward Thorndike in 1898 on the matter of behavioral conditioning (not then formulated as such) which states that "responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a ...
Rosemary Oil. A very common oil included in natural hair growth products, studies have noted the efficacy of rosemary in promoting hair growth. In one study, results showed that rosemary oil may ...