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  2. Theory of forms - Wikipedia

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    Plato's Socrates held that the world of Forms is transcendent to our own world (the world of substances) and also is the essential basis of reality. Super-ordinate to matter, Forms are the most pure of all things. Furthermore, he believed that true knowledge/intelligence is the ability to grasp the world of Forms with one's mind. [14]

  3. Ontological turn - Wikipedia

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    The ontological turn is an increased interest in ontology within a number of philosophical and academic disciplines during the early 2000s. The ontological turn in anthropology is not concerned with anthropological notions of culture, epistemology, nor world views. [1]

  4. Idea - Wikipedia

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    The argument over the underlying nature of ideas is opened by Plato, whose exposition of his theory of forms—which recurs and accumulates over the course of his many dialogs—appropriates and adds a new sense to the Greek word for things that are "seen" (re. εἶδος) that highlights those elements of perception which are encountered without material or objective reference available to ...

  5. Umwelt - Wikipedia

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    It is also the semiotic world of the organism, including all the meaningful aspects of the world for any particular organism. It can be water, food, shelter, potential threats or points of reference for navigation. An organism creates and reshapes its own umwelt when it interacts with the world. This is termed a 'functional circle'.

  6. Understanding - Wikipedia

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    Someone's understanding can come from perceived causes [8] or non causal sources, [9] suggesting knowledge being a pillar of where understanding comes from. [10] We can have understanding while lacking corresponding knowledge and have knowledge while lacking the corresponding understanding. [11] The exes understand things differently.

  7. Essentialism - Wikipedia

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    In Plato's philosophy, in particular the Timaeus and the Philebus, things were said to come into being by the action of a demiurge who works to form chaos into ordered entities. Many definitions of essence hark back to the ancient Greek hylomorphic understanding of the formation of the things. According to that account, the structure and real ...

  8. Cooking Actually Does Wonders For Your Mental Health ... - AOL

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    Further research shows cooking interventions are helpful in occupational and rehabilitation therapy because making meals involves executive function, the group of skills that help you manage ...

  9. Reductionism - Wikipedia

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    This use of levels of understanding in part expresses our human limitations in remembering detail. However, "most philosophers would insist that our role in conceptualizing reality [our need for a hierarchy of "levels" of understanding] does not change the fact that different levels of organization in reality do have different 'properties'." [9]