Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Bacteria producing specific enzymes in the absence of their substrate.  

According to Sheldon, temperament and physical constitution are correlated.  

A tendency to develop some behavioral attributes more readily than others, perhaps reflecting genetic influences. An inherited tendency to develop a condition when certain environmental factors exist, genetic potentials.  

In politics a bare majority of all members of each house, not merely the members voting on a given issue.  

In law, a change in the provisions of a constitution by modifying, deleting, or adding portions.  

In politics, citizen residing within the district of a legislator. A substance which forms part of something.  

A method of obtaining difference thresholds in which various stimuli are judged with respect to a single standard stimulus.  

In economics, dollar amounts that have been adjusted by means of price or cost indices to eliminate inflationary factors and allow direct comparison across years are expressed in two ways: (a) according to the calendar year and (b) according to school year.  

In research, field- notes are coded as the study progresses, and new instances of a dimension or a concept of interest are sought until saturation. These concepts are linked with others to develop a theory or explanation that is constantly compared with new data from the field. Discrepancies call for modification or additions that increase…

A close match between a child’s attributes and situational features, such as parent attributes or teacher attributes, dissonance of child attributes.