Philosophy & Psychology — Set 2: In Context flashcards
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Villagers walked for days to consult the old ______ on the mountain, who had settled quarrels for sixty years and spoke only after a long silence.sageKnowledge & Truth
Respect earned through decades of judging disputes, and slow, careful speech, mark a sage. A know-it-all also claims to know, but talks first and won't accept correction. -
From the town below, the hilltop college looked like an ______: its scholars debated justice in long footnotes while the town's only hospital closed without a word from any of them.ivory towerKnowledge & Truth
Scholars absorbed in their own debates while a real crisis passes them by sit in an ivory tower. An echo chamber is about hearing only views like your own, but the clue here is distance from practical problems; armchair describes a kind of reasoning, not a place. -
When Mr. Abernathy's car stalled on the icy bridge, a ______ he had never met pulled over, pushed it to the shoulder and drove off before he could say thanks.Good SamaritanEthics & Values
A passerby who steps in to help someone they've never met, owing nothing and expecting nothing back, is a Good Samaritan. Do-gooder is usually a mocking word for a meddling reformer, and nothing here is mocked. -
Sneaking onto the bus without paying fails Kant's ______: if every rider did it, the buses would stop running and there would be nothing left to sneak onto.categorical imperativeEthics & Values
Kant's test of whether a rule could hold if everyone followed it is the categorical imperative. The Golden Rule is not Kant's, and it asks how you'd want to be treated. -
Gazing at galaxies millions of light-years away, Severin felt a wave of ______ dread, unsure what one short human life could mean against all that darkness.existentialBeliefs & Schools
Dread about what a human life means is existential. Neurotic worry is anxiety out of proportion to a situation; Severin's dread concerns existence itself. -
Jung believed dreams open a window into the ______, revealing the fears and longings that the waking mind keeps hidden from itself.psycheMind & Self
The whole mind, including hidden forces like buried fears, is the psyche. The mind's eye is just the inner sight that conjures up pictures, not the depths dreams reveal. -
Though he had won the national science fair, Thaddeus feared someone would discover he had somehow fooled the judges, a case of ______ that lasted well into college.impostor syndromeFeelings & Coping
Fearing that a real success was a trick someone will uncover is impostor syndrome. Self-doubt is plain lack of confidence; Thaddeus doubts whether he deserved the win. -
Once a baby name starts climbing the charts, more parents pick it simply because it is catching on; through this ______, a name's popularity feeds on itself.bandwagon effectThinking Errors
Choosing a name because it is growing popular is the bandwagon effect. Herd mentality is the broader urge to copy a crowd; the clue here is popularity that attracts more followers simply by growing. -
When the team's trophy vanished from the display case, everyone blamed Jasper because he had stayed late, though its lock had been broken for weeks; he made a convenient ______.scapegoatGroups & Influence
An innocent person that others pin a loss on, as the team does with Jasper, is a scapegoat. A red herring is a distracting point or clue, not a person who takes the blame. -
Ezekiel claimed to have a ______, yet when we tested him on a dictionary page he had studied for ten seconds, he recalled only three words.photographic memoryHabits & Learning
The test, whether a page glimpsed for ten seconds can be called back in full detail, checks for a photographic memory. A sixth sense senses things without clues; it has nothing to do with recalling a page.
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