at·ti·tude
– noun
1. manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind.
2. position or posture of the body appropriate to or expressive of an action, emotion, etc.
"When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault."
- Salvador Dalí
- Salvador Dalí
di·a·logue
– noun
1. conversation between two or more persons.
2. the conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc.
3. an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, esp. a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.
4. a literary work in the form of a conversation.
–verb
5. to converse.
6. to discuss areas of disagreement frankly in order to resolve them.
log·ic
– noun
1. the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
2. a particular method of reasoning or argumentation.
3. the system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study.
4. reason or sound judgment, as in utterances or actions.
5. convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness.
ple·o·nasm
– noun
1. the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
2. a redundant word or expression.
tau·tol·o·gy
– noun
1. needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness.
2. an empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false.
3. a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
di·a·lec·tic
– adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
– noun
2. the art or practice of logical discussion as employed in investigating the truth of a theory or opinion.
3. logical argumentation.
4. a. logic or any of its branches.
b. any formal system of reasoning or thought.
5. the arguments or bases of dialectical materialism, including the elevation of matter over mind and a constantly changing reality with a material basis.
6. a fallacious metaphysical system arising from the attribution of objective reality to the perceptions by the mind of external objects.
7. the juxtaposition or interaction of conflicting ideas, forces, etc.
prob·a·bil·i·ty
– noun
1. the quality or fact of being probable.
2. a strong likelihood or chance of something.
3. a probable event, circumstance, etc.
4. a. the relative possibility that an event will occur, as expressed by the ratio of the number of actual occurrences to the total number of possible occurrences.
b. the relative frequency with which an event occurs or is likely to occur.
ra·tio
– noun
1. the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second.
2. proportional relation; rate.
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