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the Dream
1. an addictive fantasy that spurs the enslavement and usurpation of black bodies and the environment, the American dream, white people, white picket fences etc. (coates)
The People Who Think They Are White
the people who think they are better than people with different colored skin
growth/fixed mindset
most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work/the belief that your abilities are inherently fixed and unchanging
aporia
a logical inconsistence, you encounter something that does not compute, the way that Socrates does his work by answering his questions and helping them see where their reasoning fails.
rationalism
beliefs and opinions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than emotion.
a priori
relating to or denoting reasoning and knowledge rather than emotion
mind/body dualism
the mind and body are separable, the mind is the thinking thing and the body is just the physical thing, the matter. (Aristotle)
cogito ergo sum
"I think therefore I am"
empiricism
all knowledge is derived from sense experiences (hume)
relations of ideas/matters of fact
the type of knowledge that can be characterized as arising out of pure conceptual thought and logical operations/claims grounded in experience such as claims about substance and causal relations (hume)
antecedent skepticism
the idea that maybe everything they know is not true and that nothing is real
impressions and ideas
perceptions that the mind experiences with the most force and violence and ideas are faint images of impressions
pyrrhonism
radical skepticism. (hume)
custom and habit
repetition of the same action to develop a natural tendency to perform it
semiotics
the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation
social fact
a thing originating in the institutions or culture of a society which affects the behavior or attitudes of the individual member of that society.
mimesis
representation or imitation of the real world in are and literature
tragedy vs. comedy vs. epic
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spectacle
something that can be seen or viewed, especially something of a remarkable or impressive nature
catharsis
empathy, the feeling of pity and terror
emplotment
putting our own identities into narratives
canonicity and breach
the normal script of a story, boring and then the thing that makes it worth telling
verisimilitude
the heir of reality that a narrative gives, it seems true given the circumstances
narrative accrual
stories are cumulative, new stories follow from older ones
hermeneutic composability
the tension and distinct disconnect between the intended expression of meaning and the extraction of meaning from a narrative (bruner)
readerly/writerly
texts that are straightforward and demand no special effort to understand and those whose meaning is not immediately evident and demand some effort on the part of the reader
decision paralysis
when you have to select from options that are difficult to compare, sometimes an alternative decision is found instead
narrative medicine
medical practice that utilizes people's narratives in clinical practice research and education as a way to promote healing
confirmation bias
the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories
availability bias
tendency to think that examples of things that come readily to mind are more representative than is actually the case
representativeness heuristic
assessing similarity of objects and organizing them based around the category prototype
anchoring effect
cognitive bias that describes the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered
priming
a thing that prepares something or someone for action or particular thoughts
cultural cognition
tendency to form beliefs about societal dangers that reflect and reinforce their commitments to particular visions of the ideal society
rational choice theory
individuals rely on rational calculations to make rational choices that result in outcomes aligned with their own best interests
choice architecture
the design of different ways in which choices can be presented to consumers and the impact of that presentation on consumer decision making
nudge
prod slightly gently to think a certain way
narrative plausibility
all the relevant elements are included and that their proposed actions are reasonable
banality of evil
coterminous lack of thinking, everyday evil is because people don't think
midwife/gadfly
helps others birth their own ideas/horsefly that stings the intellectually and morally sluggish citizens with his questioning
two-in-one
consciousness, and awareness of consciousness, the inner dialogue of yourself to think through your decisions. Wicked is thinking and being actively bad. (arendt)
framing narrative
story within a story, one story is used to frame another, one of the characters is telling the story
epistolary novel
a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more person
reliable/unreliable narrator
accurate and impartial/story is not credible due to mental state or maturity
epistemology
theory of knowledge, with regard to its methods, validity and scope, what distinguishes justified belief from opinion
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