Two or more organs working together in the execution of a specific body function form an organ system, also called a biological system or body system. The functions of organ systems often share signif ...
Languages may use both syntax and prosody to distinguish interrogative sentences (which pose questions) from declarative sentences (which state propositions). Syntax refers to grammatical changes, suc ...
In philosophy, desire has been identified as a philosophical problem since Antiquity. In The Republic, Plato argues that individual desires must be postponed in the name of the higher ideal. In De Ani ...
Many types of sense loss occur due to a dysfunctional sensation process, whether it be ineffective receptors, nerve damage, or cerebral impairment. Unlike agnosia, these impairments are due to damages ...
Representationalism (also known as indirect realism) is the view that representations are the main way we access external reality. Another major prevailing philosophical theory posits that concepts ar ...
Stimulation or excitation is the action of various agents (stimuli) on nerves, muscles, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents ...
Sensory systems code for four aspects of a stimulus; type (modality), intensity, location, and duration. Arrival time of a sound pulse and phase differences of continuous sound are used for localizati ...
The word cognition comes from the Latin verb cognosco (con 'with' and gnōscō 'know') (itself a cognate of the Greek verb γι(γ)ν?σκω gi(g)n?sko, meaning 'I know, perceive' (noun: γν?σι ...
Philosophers David L. Robb and John H. Heil introduce mental causation in terms of the mind–body problem of interaction:Mind–body interaction has a central place in our pretheoretic conception of ag ...
The term "monism" was introduced in the 18th century by Christian von Wolff in his work Logic (1728), to designate types of philosophical thought in which the attempt was made to eliminate the dichoto ...
Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement or conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent.Like ditheism/bitheism (see below), moral dualism does not imply the absence of monist or mono ...
The use of "physical" in physicalism is a philosophical concept and can be distinguished from alternative definitions found in the literature (e.g. propositions of which can at least in theory be deni ...
Philosophy of the mind is one of the main branches in philosophy which deals with the concept of intuition, Intuition has been dealt with both Eastern Western philosophers in great details, understan ...
American writer Charles Fort coined the word teleportation in 1931 to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. He joined the Greek prefix ...
The ancient Greek δε?κνυμι (transl.: deiknymi), or thought experiment, "was the most ancient pattern of mathematical proof", and existed before Euclidean mathematics, where the emphasis was on ...
