Interdisciplinary Dictionary

Archive: (n) a collection of items (in comparison to Portfolio). Art: (n) the creation of works of beauty or other special significance. Axiom: (n) a self-evident truth that requires no proof. Beauty: (n) the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Conceptual Engineering: (n) the construction of ones ideas and notions about the world. Dialects of Creative Thinking: (n) different emotions and images conjured within the imagination that lead to insight. Higher Dimensions: (n) the six additional dimensions beyond the first four that humans can sense and comprehend. Intellection: (n) 1. the act or process of understanding; reasoning. 2. a conception or idea as the result of an intellectual act, notion, or thought. Interdisciplinarity: (n) the incorporation of aspects of methodology, epistemology, world-view, and perspective from multiple fields in order to solve a problem or come to a greater understanding of the world. Knowledge: (n) acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition; the fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth; clear and certain mental apprehension; awareness, as of a fact or circumstance; the body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time. Literature: (n) written work that is created with the intention of sharing an idea, that transcends time in its importance and meaningfulness to humanity. Mathematics: (n) the use of numbers, functions, symbols, and shapes to describe the world. Meta-awareness: (n) awareness that is self-reflective; higher awareness of ones

progress as a learner. Metacognition: (n) the process of thinking about how you think. Paper Fashion: (n) the logical expression of something that a person knows through intuition. Portfolio: (n) a selection of items (in comparison to Archive). Semiotic: (n) relating to signs and symbols. String Theory: (n) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are onedimensional strings. Syllogism: (n) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises. Topology: (n) 1. the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching. 2. a collection of open sets making a given set a topological space. Truth: (n) a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like; conformity with fact or reality; verity. Value: (n) 1. intrinsic - the relative worth, merit, or importance of something due to its very nature. 2. extrinsic - the relative worth, merit, or importance assigned to something from an outside source.