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Biological Classification - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Homologous versus analogous traits in classification
Biological classification is based on shared descent from their nearest common ancestor. Accordingly, the important attributes or traits for biological classification are 'homologous', i.e., inherited from common ancestors.[3] These must be separated from traits that are…
Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document
A class is a category of shared traits
A class is a category of items that share one or more common traits serving as criteria to identify the items belonging to the class.
Instance of a class
An instance of a class is an item that has the traits that match the criteria of the intension of the class.
Dennis The Menace And Gnasher - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Dennis the menace is not a villain
Dennis is an uncontrollable schoolboy who takes pride in causing chaos and mayhem to those around him due to his intolerance for rules and order. Such traits have caused some artists to consider him to be quite the villain. In such strips, Dennis would often prove himself to be…
Esl Podcast 729 – Being Blunt And Stubborn
Strong-willed or pigheaded?
Dirk: Well, there’s strong and there’s pigheadedness. Don’t you think? Simone: What?! You think Bruce is pigheaded, just because he doesn’t budge when other people try to sway him? I think that’s an admirable trait.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Knowing one's traits without personal memories
What seems clear is that H.M. did retain some sense of self. This is certainly the view Philip J. Hilts formed, having spent a long time with H.M. while writing his book Memory’s Ghost. This residual sense of self was a ‘sharply realistic’ idea of the kind of person H.M. was…
A man does not consist of memory alone
If there is a continuity of key character traits, there will be some, albeit a radically diminished, continuity of the self too. ‘A man does not consist of memory alone,’ wrote the psychologist A.R. Luria, ‘he has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral feeling – matters of which…
The pearl view of character
Pearl-like assumptions about the self are perhaps most stubborn when it comes to the idea of character. Almost everyone seems to believe that their personality is a consistent combination of traits which is, paradoxically, both unique and classifiable in any number of different…
Character varies with situation
The central truth is not that character is a myth, but that it varies more according to situation than we tend to assume. This means that, even if we take the findings at face value, a credible notion of character remains. Consider, for instance, a person’s tendency to be…
Character without consistency is not character
If character doesn’t mean the tendency to display the same kind of traits across different situations, then it means nothing. Character without consistency is not character at all. There is clearly something to this, but one can still ask how much consistency character…
Traits are fairly stable across situations
Several attempts to analyse data on behaviour over a range of situations have suggested that there is significant stability of traits over different situations.7 This alone is enough to show that the idea that character is just an illusion is far too simplistic.
Passive and active character
perhaps the most important limitations of character scepticism arise from a failure to distinguish between two senses of character, what I’ll call passive and active. Passive character is the set of dispositions we just happen to have as a result of our genes, upbringing and…
Traits are never purely active or passive
it should be clear that, in real life, traits are never purely active or passive. Rather, they tend to greater activeness the more they reflect deliberate efforts to mould our own behaviours.
A hierarchy of character traits
For the sake of simplicity, we can crudely schematise any given individual’s character into a hierarchy of types. The weakest kind of character traits are those which are passive and variable, neither self-chosen nor constant. Slightly more robust are passive, constant traits…
Consistency of character must be cultivated
This does not mean there is no value in trying to cultivate a generous personality: indeed, there may be even more. The evidence is that unless you try to cultivate traits, whether you display them will depend more on circumstances than on you. So consistency in character is…