Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A person who asserts that something is true with logical explanations or rationale, ct: dogmatic authority.  

The combining of old habits, knowledge, and concepts to solve a new problem. The making of judgments or drawing of conclusions based on evidence, education, experience, training, and/or personal biases.  

A coital position in which the female is penetrated by the male from behind her.  

The true or authentic core of one’s personality.  

William Glasser’s method of psychotherapy that seeks to lead people to stop denying the real world and, instead, to accept responsibility for fulfilling their needs for self-esteem and for giving and receiving love. A psychiatric treatment based on the concept that some patients deny the reality of the world around them. Therapy is directed to…

Assumptions that relate to the gratification of needs in light of environmental possibilities, limitations, and dangers.  

A type of therapy that focuses on the client assuming a productive  

Conjugal love. A type of love that is calm and based on information and interaction with the partner over a number of years, romantic love.  

A philosophy that holds that knowledge is derived from perceptual experience, that the physical world assists a person’s search for knowledge.  

An antibody associated with many diseases. An antibody which reacts against an allergen. Antibody which reacts with lipoidal ‘antigens’ extracted from animal tissues in tests such as Kahn, Wassermann, that of the Venereal Diseases Research Laboratory and Price’s precipitation reaction. Antibody (an IgE immunoglobulin) formed against allergens (e.g., pollen) that attaches to cell membranes, causing…