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  2. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    Job outcome measures include job and training proficiency and personnel data. [224] However, research demonstrating such prediction has been criticized, in part because of the apparently low correlation coefficients characterizing the relationship between personality and job performance. In a 2007 article states: "The problem with personality ...

  3. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    Complementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum (push, pull). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings (teacher, pupil). These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly ...

  4. Contrary (social role) - Wikipedia

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    Contrary behavior means deliberately doing the opposite of what others routinely or conventionally do. Traditionally, it is usually accompanied by inverse speech, in which one says the opposite of what one actually means. For example, "no!" expresses "yes!" And "hello" means "goodbye".

  5. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    Opposite of a priori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out. In philosophy, used to denote something known from experience. a priori: from the former: Presupposed independent of experience; the reverse of a posteriori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known or ...

  6. Inclusion–exclusion principle - Wikipedia

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    Include the cardinalities of the quintuple-wise intersections. Continue, until the cardinality of the n -tuple-wise intersection is included (if n is odd) or excluded ( n even). The name comes from the idea that the principle is based on over-generous inclusion , followed by compensating exclusion .

  7. Alternatives to Darwinian evolution - Wikipedia

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    The mediaeval great chain of being as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: [1] Ramon Lull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different groups of living things.

  8. Orient - Wikipedia

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    These can include Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Assyrians, West Asian Armenians, Yezidis, Egyptians (including Copts), Mandaeans, among others. In some specific contexts, for example the carpet and rug trade, the older sense of "oriental" to cover not just East Asia but Central Asia , South Asia and Turkey may still be used; an Oriental rug may come ...

  9. Law of excluded middle - Wikipedia

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    In logic, the law of excluded middle or the principle of excluded middle states that for every proposition, either this proposition or its negation is true. [1] [2] It is one of the three laws of thought, along with the law of noncontradiction, and the law of identity; however, no system of logic is built on just these laws, and none of these laws provides inference rules, such as modus ponens ...