Dialectic - argument for solving disagreement, dialogue between two with different points of view, to come to a reasoned truth of the matter. Differs from debate in that there each side is committed to their point and one side wins.
Abstract - short statement containing key information about the full paper or conference presentation.
Schema. A cluster of preconceived ideas or thoughts which represent a view of the world, a group, a person.
Epistemologist. Specialist in the branch of philosophy which studies the nature of knowledge and truth. Unrelated to critical thinking which is more allied to systems and methods. Epistemology investigates the origins and and limits of knowledge.
Heuristic solutions are those such as an educated guess or intuitive judgement, finding a quick, experienced-based solution.
Phenomenographic - a research approach which examines the relationships between study and understanding, thinking and learning, especially within education. It explores how people experience and learn.
Exegesis - a critical explanation or interpretation of a text.
Iterations – a design term, repeating process in stages, observing and reflecting. In my art work I think of this as dress rehearsals or mock-ups. Sometimes you have to pull things together to see if they will work as a whole before finalising component parts.
Imaginal – lovely new word to me. Apart from meaning referring to the imagination, there are links in this word to metaphysical realms, and a newer branch of psychology which is to do with the soul, and what images reveal and speak of the soul.
Reflexivity is the circular relationship between cause and effect, each affecting the other.
Quotidian - the everyday, the ordinary, as opposed to Quiddity, the essence or whatness of a thing.
Palimpsest - a manuscript page from which the writing has been scraper off and the page used again.
Liminal - a sensory threshold, in an intermediate state, in between life and death
Limbic - the Limbic system is a complex set of brain structures, controlling the emotions, behaviour, motivations and memory.
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