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WORDS OF THOUGHT

Ask questions, examine data, process information, figure it all out and then make a plan and execute it with action… thought is the cognitive processes involved in such mental activities as reasoning, remembering, imagining, problem solving, and making judgments.

Thought encompasses a flow of abstract and linear ideas and associations that can lead to a reality-oriented action or conclusion. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood. Thinking allows us to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world we experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is therefore key to manifesting action from the needs, objectives, and desires that come from planning and strategizing. I think therefore I am?

The word ‘thought’ comes from the Old English ‘þoht’, or ‘geþoht’ from the stem of ‘þencan’ meaning "to conceive of in the mind, consider.”
The word "thought" may mean:
  • a single product of thinking or a single idea ("My first thought was ‘no.’")
  • the product of mental activity ("Mathematics is a large body of thought.")
  • the act or system of thinking ("I was frazzled from too much thought.")
  • the capacity to think, reason, imagine, and so on ("All her thought was applied to her work.")
  • the consideration of or reflection on an idea ("The thought of death terrifies me.")
  • recollection or contemplation ("I thought about my childhood.")
  • half-formed or imperfect intention ("I had some thought of going.")
  • anticipation or expectation ("She had no thought of seeing him again.")
  • consideration, attention, care, or regard ("He took no thought of his appearance" and "I did it without thinking.")
  • judgment, opinion, or belief ("According to his thought, honesty is the best policy.")
  • the ideas characteristic of a particular place, class, or time ("Greek thought")
  • the state of being conscious of something ("It made me think of my grandmother.")
  • tending to believe in something, especially with less than full confidence ("I think that it will rain, but I am not sure.")

ADVISEMENT - the process of viewing or considering mentally; thought, thinking, consideration, reflection, deliberation

BETHINKING - the act of thinking, considering, reflecting, or remembering

CALCULATE - to think, to expect, to believe

CEREBRATION (“mental activity,” “thought”) and the verb that derived from it, cerebrate, (“to use the mind,” “to think”) have the technical, medical, and psychological overtones that come from Latin vocabulary in research.

COUNTERFACTUAL - phenomena are phenomena that are physically implausible or nonexistent; in psychology mostly known for counterfactual thinking: pondering about what would have happened if one had done something different at a certain point in time; so though the phenomenon can easily be thought about, it’s just impossible in the present reality

COGITABUND - deep in thought; thoughtful, meditating, musing

COGITATE - means “to think carefully and seriously about something,” and it comes from the Latin cogitare (“to think”), itself formed from the combination of ¬co- meaning “together” and agitare meaning “to drive” or “to agitate”—the root of agitate in English and, in this case, another figurative use of language, since it could also mean “to turn over in the mind” in Latin.

COGITABLE - thinkable

COGITABUND - deep in thought; thoughtful

COGITENT - thinking

COGITATIVE - given to thought; meditative

COGITATIVITY - cognitive power or action

COGNITIVISM: the study of how people mentally represent information processing.

CONJECTURE: the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof. From the Middle English Latin ‘conjectūra’ (< Middle French) meaning “inferring, reasoning” and the past participle of ‘conjicere’ meaning to “throw together, form a conclusion.”

CONVERGENT THINKING: ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution, which in some cases is a "correct" solution.

DIVERGENT THINKING: a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, "non-linear" manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are drawn.
  • Divergent thought is then processed with convergent thinking and thoughts become a plan and actions are therefore taken to enact the plan.
  • Divergent thinking is creativity. Creativity is found in people with personality traits such as nonconformity, curiosity, willingness to take risks, and persistence.

EXCOGITATE - to think, devise or plan out

HEURISTICS - Trial-and-error procedure for solving problems (or reaching an unclear goal) through incremental exploration, and by employing a known criteria to unknown factors. In journalism, a well known heuristic is asking Who? What? When? Where? Why? in investigating a news story. A heuristic employs independent discovery, and relies heavily on common sense, creativity, and learning from experience. Unlike an algorithm, however, it offers no guaranty of solving any problem. From Greek 'heuriskein,' to discover. See also lateral thinking.

INCOGITANT - not having the faculty of thinking

IDIOMS - Sometimes we “weigh" thoughts, sometimes we “turn them over," and other times they give us something to “chew on."

IDEATE - use in English dates back to the 1600s, when it referred to Platonic philosophy, meaning “to form an idea or conception of.” When referring to an abstract or perfect example of something, we also use a word related to idea, Platonic Ideal.

IDEATE: ideate sounds like annoying business jargon, but in fact its use dates back to the 1600s, when it referred to Platonic philosophy, meaning “to form an idea or conception of.” When referring to an abstract or perfect example of something, we also use a word related to idea, ‘Platonic ideal’ Another related word is ‘ideation’ meaning “the capacity or the act of forming or entertaining ideas.”

IDEATION - another related word is ideation, meaning “the capacity or the act of forming or entertaining ideas.”

IMAGINATION: Traditionally, the mental capacity for experiencing, constructing, or manipulating 'mental imagery' (quasi-perceptual experience).
  • Imagination is also regarded as responsible for fantasy, inventiveness, idiosyncrasy, and creative, original, and insightful thought in general, and, sometimes, for a much wider range of mental activities dealing with the non-actual, such as supposing, pretending, 'seeing as', thinking of possibilities, and even being mistaken.
  • Imagination is a cognitive process used in mental functioning and sometimes used in conjunction with psychological imagery. It is considered as such because it involves thinking about possibilities.

INFERENCE: pulling together a set of elements and stating their meaning as a whole; going from the specific to the general

INSIGHT: the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a specific context. The term insight can have several related meanings:
  • a piece of information
  • the act or result of understanding the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively
  • an introspection
  • the power of acute observation and deduction, discernment, and perception, called intellection
  • an understanding of cause and effect based on identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario

INTELLECTION - is “the act of the intellect” or “exercise of the intellect,” a synonym of thought and reasoning.
Outside of literary contexts, intellection serves a way of emphasizing thought or thinking in a positive way.

INTUITION: the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to inference or conscious reasoning. The voice of your inner wisdom. Learning how to connect with your intuition is a key skill for successful Creative Dreaming. You need the brilliant advice of your intuition wisdom to build your Creative Dream Path.

LETHOLOGICA - ever have moments when you can’t think of a word or a name? It’s on the tip of your tongue and you think really hard but just can’t pull it out of your brain? This is called lethologica. From the Greek lēthē for ‘forgetfulness’ & logos for ‘word’.

MUSE - to become absorbed in thought. From the Middle French word meaning “the mouth of an animal” or “snout.” The verb muse come to mean “to gape, to stare, to idle, to muse” because of the face one makes when lost in thought.

NOESIS - the Greek word meaning “to think” or “to perceive” came to English as noesis, meaning “purely intellectual knowledge” or “a process or act of thinking.” The adjective is noetic meaning “of, relating to, or based on the intellect.”

NOTIONATE - to devise or originate by process of thought

OPINIONATE - to form or hold an opinion; to believe, to suppose, to think

PENSIVE - comes from the French verb penser, meaning “to think.” The literal meaning of pensive is “thoughtful.” Samuel Johnson defined the word this way in 1755: “This melancholy mood continues today in our use of the word: though it can have the more neutral meaning of “musingly or dreamily thoughtful,” it also means “suggestive of sad thoughtfulness.”

PENSIFUL - thoughtful, meditative, pensive; anxious, brooding; melancholy, sorrowful

PONDER: think carefully about something. Ponder came to English from a French word with the same meaning, ‘ponderer’, but its ultimate root is the Latin word ‘pondus’, meaning “weight.”

POSTULATE: suggestion or assumption of the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief. Postulate comes from the Latin ‘postulātum’ meaning “petition, thing requested” and use of past participle ‘postulāre’ meaning “to request, demand” akin to ‘pōscere’ meaning “ to request.”

RASĀSVĀDA means the taste of bliss in the absence of all thought. It is an aesthetic consciousness. It is a Sanskrit word that can be translated as meaning "appreciation" or "perception of pleasure."

RATIOCINATION: the Latin root word that ‘ratio’ and ‘rational’ derived from also created the word ‘ratiocination’, meaning “the process of exact thinking” or “a reasoned train of thought.” In Latin, ‘ratio’ means “reason” or “computation,” and the mathematical connotation makes it perfect for describing a “machine like” thinking process

REASONING: the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.
  • Reasoning is associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect. The field of logic studies ways in which humans reason formally through argument.
  • Reasoning may be subdivided into forms of logical reasoning (forms associated with the strict sense)
    • deductive reasoning
    • inductive reasoning
    • abductive reasoning
    • intuitive reasoning
    • verbal reasoning
  • Reasoning is the means by which rational individuals understand sensory information from their environments, or conceptualize abstract dichotomies such as cause and effect, truth and falsehood, or ideas regarding notions of good or evil.
  • Reasoning, as a part of executive decision making, is also closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change, in terms of goals, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and institutions, and therefore with the capacity for freedom and self-determination.
The original Greek term was ‘λόγος’ or ‘logos’, the root of the modern English word "logic" but also a word which could mean for example "speech" or "explanation" or an "account" (of money handled).
  • As a philosophical term ‘logos’ was translated in Latin as ‘ratio’. This was originally not just a translation used for philosophy, but was also commonly a translation for ‘logos’ in the sense of an account of money.
  • French ‘raison’ is derived directly from Latin, and this is the direct source of the English word "reason".
  • The earliest philosophers routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words "logos", "ratio", "raison" and "reason" as interchangeable.
  • The meaning of the word ‘reason’ in senses such as "human reason" also overlaps to a large extent with ‘rationality’ and the adjective of ‘reason’ in philosophical contexts is normally ‘rational’ rather than ‘reasoned’ or "reasonable". Some philosophers also used the word ‘ratiocination’ as a synonym for "reasoning".

RUMINATE: We sometimes “weigh” thoughts, or “turn them over," and they give us something to “chew on." The verb ‘ruminate’ literally means “to chew the cud,” like the cows do. It comes from the Latin word ‘ruminari’ which references a cow’s first stomach. ‘Rumen’ is the root of the word ‘ruminants’ which refers to mammals with 3- or 4-chambered stomachs and two-toed feet like found in cattle, deer, giraffes, goats, and sheep.

SUPPOSE: to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory. From the Middle English ‘supposen’ Old French ‘supposer’ compare to Medieval Latin ‘suppōnere’ meaning “to suppose” from Latin meaning “substitute, place below.”

SURMISE: to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess. From the Middle English ‘surmisen’ and Anglo-French ‘surmis(e)’, Middle French (past participle of ‘surmettre’ meaning to accuse; Latin ‘supermittere’ meaning “to throw upon.”

SYLLOGISM - a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.

THINKATIVE - consisting in mere thinking; speculative

THORTY - thoughtless, half-witted, stupid

VENTILATION - the utterance or expression of one's thoughts

WHIZZLE-BRAINED - giddy, thoughtless, harebrained

YARK - to think hard; to beat one's brains; of the mind: to be busy, worked up, or excited

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