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  2. Jijnasa - Wikipedia

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    When the jijñāsā or the desire to know the true nature of objects intensifies then one reaches the threshold of jñāna or knowledge about those objects; knowledge. The desire to know is called the sādhya-sādhanā , the desire to know is the very base of knowledge which is an excited state that leads to understanding ( paroksha jñāna ...

  3. Syntactic bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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    In the experiment, children who heard the word 'hope' presented in the same syntactic frame as 'want' (i.e. followed by an infinitival verb) connected the new verb 'hope' with a meaning of desire. On the other hand, those that heard 'hope' presented in the same frame as 'think' (i.e. followed by a finite verb) made no such association between ...

  4. Yield (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Relation between chemical reaction conversion selectivity and yield. In chemical reaction engineering, "yield", "conversion" and "selectivity" are terms used to describe ratios of how much of a reactant has reacted—conversion, how much of a desired product was formed—yield, and how much desired product was formed in ratio to the undesired product—selectivity, represented as X, S, and Y.

  5. Serenity Prayer - Wikipedia

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    A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. The Most Common Sexual Fantasies and How to Fulfill ... - AOL

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    For Justin Lehmiller’s book, Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help Improve Your Sex Life, he conducted a survey and found that 58% of men fantasized about ...

  8. Britney Spears' highs and lows — a timeline from 'The ... - AOL

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    Britney Spears' career is inextricable from her personal life. Take a look back at her life and body of work through past coverage and excerpts from her memoir.

  9. Distinction without a difference - Wikipedia

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    A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists. [1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.