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  2. Mundane reason - Wikipedia

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    The basic premise of the concept of mundane reason is that the standard assumptions about reality that people typically make as they go about day to day, including the very fact that they experience their reality as perfectly natural, are actually the result of social, cultural, and historical processes that make a particular perception of the world readily available.

  3. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

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    3.328 "If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's Razor." (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.) 4.04 "In the proposition, there must be exactly as many things distinguishable as there are in the state of affairs, which it represents.

  4. Escapism - Wikipedia

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    Freud considers a quota of escapist fantasy a necessary element in the life of humans: "[T]hey cannot subsist on the scanty satisfaction they can extort from reality. 'We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions', Theodor Fontane once said, [16] "His followers saw rest and wish fulfilment (in small measures) as useful tools in adjusting to traumatic upset"; [17] while later ...

  5. Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and poet known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it.. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for ...

  6. Commodity pathway diversion - Wikipedia

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    A commodity pathway diversion is the ability of an object to move in and out of the "commodity state" over the course of its use life. Diversions can occur when an object is removed from its commodity pathway for its protection and preservation, or when a previously removed object is commoditized through reentry into the commodity pathway after having gained value through its absence.

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  8. Diversion - Wikipedia

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    Diversion dam, the rerouting of water; Diversion program, criminal justice scheme usually for minor offenses; Drug diversion, the transfer of legally prescribed controlled pharmaceuticals to other individuals; Product diversion, the sale of products in unintended markets; Weapons diversion, the loss or theft of weapons and ammunition

  9. Theosophical mysticism - Wikipedia

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    that there is an omnipresent, eternal, boundless, and immutable reality of which spirit and matter are complementary aspects; that there is a universal law of periodicity or evolution through cyclic change; and; that all souls are identical with the universal oversoul which is itself an aspect of the unknown reality.