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  2. Meaning-making - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self. [1] The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy, [2] especially during bereavement in which people attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death ...

  3. Sensemaking - Wikipedia

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    Sensemaking or sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences. It has been defined as "the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing" ( Weick, Sutcliffe, & Obstfeld, 2005, p. 409 ).

  4. Cynefin framework - Wikipedia

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    The idea of the Cynefin framework is that it offers decision-makers a "sense of place" from which to view their perceptions. [7] Cynefin is a Welsh word meaning 'habitat', 'haunt', 'acquainted', 'familiar'. Snowden uses the term to refer to the idea that we all have connections, such as tribal, religious and geographical, of which we may not be ...

  5. Qualia - Wikipedia

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    American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce introduced the term quale in philosophy in 1866, and in 1929 C. I. Lewis was the first to use the term "qualia" in its generally agreed upon modern sense. Frank Jackson later defined qualia as "...certain features of the bodily sensations especially, but also of certain perceptual experiences, which ...

  6. Meaning (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Frege can be interpreted as arguing that it was therefore a mistake to think that the meaning of a name is the thing it refers to. Instead, the meaning must be something else—the "sense" of the word. Two names for the same person, then, can have different senses (or meanings): one referent might be picked out by more than one sense.

  7. Heideggerian terminology - Wikipedia

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    (Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια) . Heidegger's idea of aletheia, or disclosure (Erschlossenheit), was an attempt to make sense of how things in the world appear to human beings as part of an opening in intelligibility, as "unclosedness" or "unconcealedness".

  8. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Literal usage confers meaning to words, in the sense of the meaning words have by themselves, [2] for example as defined in a dictionary. It maintains a consistent meaning regardless of the context , [ 3 ] with the intended meaning of a phrase corresponding exactly to the meaning of its individual words. [ 4 ]

  9. Thought - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] In their most common sense, they are understood as conscious processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. [4] [5] This includes various different mental processes, like considering an idea or proposition or judging it to be true. In this sense, memory and imagination are forms of thought but perception is not. [6]