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  2. Self-limiting - Wikipedia

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    Self-limiting may refer to: Self-limiting (biology), describing an organism or colony of organisms which limits its own growth; Governor (device), used to control the ...

  3. Self-limiting (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A self-limiting organism or colony of organisms limits its own growth by its actions. [1] For example, a single organism may have a maximum size determined by genetics , or a colony of organisms may release waste which is ultimately toxic to the colony once it exceeds a certain population .

  4. Collective self-limitation - Wikipedia

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    Self-limitation is therefore considered an expression of individual autonomy [1] and can hence be contrasted against the imposition of external limitations. Collective self-limitation or Collectively defined self-limitation [ 2 ] correspondingly refers to the definition of such limits within groups and societies, through which the group and ...

  5. Autarky - Wikipedia

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    Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems. [1]Autarky as an ideology or economic approach has been attempted by a range of political ideologies and movements, particularly leftist ones like African socialism, mutualism, war communism, [2] communalism, swadeshi, syndicalism (especially anarcho-syndicalism ...

  6. Upadhi - Wikipedia

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    In his commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣhad 3.8.12, Śaṅkara raises the important question as to what is the difference between Brahman, God (Īśvara), and the individual self (jīva) and he answers the question by saying that these distinctions are made only on the basis of limiting adjuncts (upādhi), which prevents reality.

  7. Limiting factor - Wikipedia

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    The identification of a factor as limiting is possible only in distinction to one or more other factors that are non-limiting. Disciplines differ in their use of the term as to whether they allow the simultaneous existence of more than one limiting factor (which may then be called "co-limiting"), but they all require the existence of at least one non-limiting factor when the terms are used.

  8. Thought-terminating cliché - Wikipedia

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    A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language, often passing as folk wisdom, intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance.

  9. Personal development - Wikipedia

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    The second one is the real self which is the objective view of one self and who we really are. Rogers emphasized that healthy development is when the real self and the ideal self are accurate. Incongruence is what Rogers described to be when the real self and the ideal self are not accurate in their viewings.