Materialism is the view that there is only one kind of substance, which is matter. Thus the mind is not a distinct substance; it is not ‘ontologically distinct’ from what is material, but dependent upon it for its existence. Physicalism. What are the two forms of physicalism? In fact thereRead More →
They are subjective. Truth is objective and open to disputation and debate; matters of personal taste are not. Matters of individual tastes and preference are about you. They can be used with personal pronouns because they’re personal. Can a fact be subjective? Facts seen from the perspective of an individual,Read More →
It’s just a matter of finding the right fit. Nat Geo tips us to the first recorded invention by analogy. Some 2000 years ago, the Roman architect-engineer Vitruvius used an analogy to figure out how to build an excellent theatre. What are the 5 types of analogy? What are theRead More →
First person point of view: First person refers to the speaker. It uses the subject pronoun “I” (unless plural). First Person Example: I prefer coffee to hot cocoa. How do you write in 1st person? When authors use the first-person point of view in their writing, they use I, meRead More →
Python does not have unary increment/decrement operators ( — / ++ ). Instead, to increment a value, use a += 1. Is ++ valid in Python? The ++ operator is not available in Python. Guido doesn’t like these operators. It makes writing UI code so much less line-y though. WellRead More →
In American English, folk and folks can both mean a group of people with a small difference. “Folk” is a collective noun and refers to a group of people in general. “Folks” is a group of individuals. In some situations, you can use either folk or folks but in otherRead More →
Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, conversation analysis, contrastive linguistics, sign linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, language planning and policy, interlinguistics, stylistics, language … What are the domains of applied linguistics? Generally, critical applied linguistics contains five major domains: CDA andRead More →
The 26th juz’ of the Quran includes parts of six surahs (chapters) of the holy book, from the beginning of the 46th chapter (Al-Ahqaf 46:1) and continuing to the middle of the 51st chapter (Adh-Dhariyat 51:30). What is the 7 juz? The seventh juz’ of the Qur’an contains parts ofRead More →
“Phonological bootstrapping” is the hypothesis that a purely phonological analysis of the speech signal may allow infants to start acquiring the lexicon and syntax of their native language (Morgan & Demuth, 1996a). What is bootstrapping in language acquisition? Bootstrapping is a term used in language acquisition in the field ofRead More →
/fɔːˈbəʊ.dɪŋ/ a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon: There’s a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out. Her forebodings about the future were to prove justified. He had a strange foreboding (that) something would go wrong. Can youRead More →