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  2. Arbitrariness - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". It is also used to refer to a choice made ...

  3. Arbitrarily large - Wikipedia

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    The statement " is non-negative for arbitrarily large ." is a shorthand for: "For every real number , () is non-negative for some value of greater than .". In the common parlance, the term "arbitrarily long" is often used in the context of sequence of numbers.

  4. Absurdism - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd. There is wide agreement that the term "absurd" implies a lack of meaning or purpose but there is also significant dispute concerning its exact definition and various versions have been suggested.

  5. Euthyphro dilemma - Wikipedia

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    Euthyphro then revises his definition, so that piety is only that which is loved by all of the gods unanimously (9e). At this point the dilemma surfaces. Socrates asks whether the gods love the pious because it is the pious, or whether the pious is pious only because it is loved by the gods (10a).

  6. Iconicity - Wikipedia

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    In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign (linguistic or otherwise) and its meaning, as opposed to arbitrariness (which is typically assumed in structuralist, formalist and generative approaches to linguistics).

  7. Arbitrary inference - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrary inference is a classic tenet of cognitive therapy created by Aaron T. Beck in 1979. [1] He defines the act of making an arbitrary inference as the process ...

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  9. Animal language - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrariness: There is usually no rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning. [6] For example, there is nothing intrinsically house-like about the word "house". Discreteness: Language is composed of small, separate, and repeatable parts (discrete units, e.g. morphemes) that are used in combination to create meaning.