Notes on Terms and Concepts

In this chapter, Torrance defines the following: abstraction, abstractive knowledge, accrediting, articulate/inarticulate, axioms, boundary conditions, commitment, comprehension, conviviality, cosmology, definition, detachment, discovery, dual control, dualism, empiricism, epistemology, fiduciary act, focal/subsidiary, formal/informal, Gestalt, hermeneutics, heuristics, indwelling, integration, intuition, mechanistic world view, mind/body 'dualism', objectivism, objectivity, ontology, personal knowledge, phenomenalism, positivism, premiss, proximal/distal, rationalism, reality, reductionism, tacit dimension, scientism, semantics, transcendence, universal intent.