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A veridical paradox produces a result that appears counter to intuition, but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless: That the Earth is an approximately spherical object that is rotating and in rapid motion around the Sun , rather than the apparently obvious and common-sensical appearance of the Earth as a stationary approximately flat plane ...
While the paradoxical method was documented by Adler as early as the 1920s, its counter-intuitive style has always been difficult to explain. Adler once described the method as "spitting in the patient's soup"; meaning that the method had the ability to impact behavior without "convincing or rewarding" the patient to change.
Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.
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This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations.
President Donald Trump’s suggestion of the United States entering into a 50-50 ownership joint venture with TikTok’s parent company to help it avoid a US ban would be “counter-intuitive ...
Quantum foundations is a discipline of science that seeks to understand the most counter-intuitive aspects of quantum theory, reformulate it and even propose new generalizations thereof. Contrary to other physical theories, such as general relativity, the defining axioms of quantum theory are quite ad hoc, with no obvious physical intuition ...
Cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer argued that minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI) i.e., concepts that violate a few ontological expectations of a category such as the category of an agent, are more memorable than intuitive and maximally counterintuitive (MXCI) concepts. [1]