What does the structure of the word "altruistic" tell the reader about its meaning?
The word "altruism" was coined by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in French as altruisme for an antonym of egoism. He derived it from the Italian altrui which in turn was derived from Latin alteri meaning "other people" or "somebody else". Altruism in biological observations in field populations of the day organisms is an individual performing an action which is at a cost to themselves but benefits …
Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind sympathetic cooperative warm and considerate. In contemporary personality psychology agreeableness is one of the five major dimensions of personality structure reflecting individual differences in cooperation and social harmony.
This structure simplifies the matter of elucidating predicates with out having to add a ton of exceptions to the rules of what predicates are in the opener. Who knows if we get enough content here we might be able to split the article into separate pages where each topic can be in the "spot light" to the reader .
Sure it would make perfect sense for the common meaning of the word "altruism" today to correspond directly to what the doctrine demands. But the fact is it doesn't --since the meaning of altruism in its most common usage makes reference to the psychological state or …
Occam's razor Ockham's razor Ocham's razor (Latin: novacula Occami) or law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae) is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity" or more simply the simplest explanation is usually the right one. The idea is attributed to English Fr...
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