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  2. Samskara (Indian philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Samskara, or Sankhara, is a significant concept across major schools of Hindu philosophy as well as Buddhism and Jainism. [10] The schools of Indian philosophy differ on the specific mechanisms about how samskara operates at the subconscious level.

  3. Vāsanā - Wikipedia

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    D.T. Suzuki (1930) in The Lankavatara Sutra, connects vasana to its other meaning, 'infusing': "Discrimination is the result of memory (vasana) accumulated from the unknown past. Vasana literally means "perfuming," or "fumigation," that is, it is a kind of energy that is left behind when an act is accomplished and has the power to rekindle the ...

  4. Inclination (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle defined inclination in the first paragraph of Metaphysics with the statement "all men by their nature, desire to know." [ 1 ] Thomas Aquinas proposed that humans have four natural inclinations - a natural inclination to preservation (life), an inclination to sexual reproduction (procreation), sociability, and knowledge. [ 2 ]

  5. Vijñāna - Wikipedia

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    In a number of Pali texts though, the term has a more nuanced and context-specific (or "technical") meaning. In particular, in the Pali Canon's "Discourse Basket" (Suttapitaka), viññā ṇ a (generally translated as "consciousness") is discussed in at least three related but different contexts:

  6. Cognitive miser - Wikipedia

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    availability heuristic (the inclination to judge the likelihood of something occurring because of the ease of thinking of examples of that event occurring) [9] [page needed] [16] anchoring and adjustment heuristic (the inclination to overweight the importance and influence of an initial piece of information, and then adjusting one's answer away ...

  7. Hindsight bias - Wikipedia

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    Hindsight bias decreases one's rational thinking because of when a person experiences strong emotions, which in turn decreases rational thinking. Another negative consequence of hindsight bias is the interference of one's ability to learn from experience, as a person is unable to look back on past decisions and learn from mistakes.

  8. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for ...

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    According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands: Find theme words to fill the board. Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found.

  9. Thought - Wikipedia

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    It involves becoming familiar with the characteristic features shared by all instances of the corresponding type of entity and developing the ability to identify positive and negative cases. This process usually corresponds to learning the meaning of the word associated with the type in question.