Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Lustful or lewd.  

Extremely or falsely modest.  

A diet with fat content more than 30%, with a daily intake of not more than 250 mg of cholesterol, protein contributing 15% of the diet, and the rest of the diet in the form of carbohydrates. A diet designed to protect against heart disease, stroke, and other common diseases; it consists of fruits, vegetables,…

A sequence of development that proceeds from near the trunk of the body outward to the extremities.  

From near to far.  

In psychology, explanations of behavior that focus on the immediate etiology. An event that immediately precedes another and is felt to be responsible for its occurrence.  

The pattern of physical energies that originates from the distal stimulus and impinges upon a sense organ.  

The study of special behavior, as in how people maintain interpersonal distance especially examine the regularities that occur in interpersonal spacing.  

The genome of a virus integrated into the chromosome of a host cell and thereby replicated with each division of the host cell. The nucleic acid of  virus that has been incorporated into the DNA of a host cell.  

The typical example of a category of meaning. An original or initial model or type from which subsequent types arise.