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emotion
thumb|Sixteen faces expressing the human passions – colored engraving by J. Pass, 1821, after [[Charles Le Brun|371x371px]]
feeling
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term feeling is closely related to, but not the same as, emotion. Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective experiences is called phenomenology. Psychotherapy generally involves a therapist helping a client understand, articulate, and learn to effectively regulate the client's own feelings, and ultimately to take resp
opinion
thumb|"Soapboxing" in [[Chinatown, San Francisco]]
intuition
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; gut feelings; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning. Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate or heuristic.
fatigue
Fatigue is a state of being without energy for a prolonged period of time. Fatigue is used in two contexts: in the medical sense, and in the sense of normal tiredness.
connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
qualia
upright=0.65|thumb|The "redness" of red is an example of a quale.
point of view
standpoint regarding a topic; opinion, attitude, or judgment upon some matter; way that one looks at something
subjective idealism
philosophy that only minds and ideas are real
sentience
thumb|upright=1.2|Determining which animals can experience sensations is challenging, but scientists generally agree that vertebrates, as well as many [[invertebrate species, are likely sentient.]] Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Some theorists define sentience exclusively as the capacity for valenced (positive or negative) mental experiences, such as pain and pleasure.
job satisfaction
attitude of a person towards work
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel
philosophy of self
defines, among other things, the conditions of identity that make one subject of experience distinct from all others
philosophy of perception
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subjective well-being
self-reported measure of well-being
subjective validation
a cognitive bias by which a person will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them
explanatory gap
inability to describe conscious experiences in soley physical or structural terms
subjective constancy
constancy of perception across different sensory input
objectivism
basic distinction in philosophy
Problem of mental causation
Conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind
Zoom fatigue
burnout associated with overuse of virtual platforms
subject and object
philosophy terms referring to an observer versus the thing observed
Museum fatigue
state of fatigue caused by museum exhibits
Mystical experience
experience interpreted within a religious framework
Why am I me, rather than someone else?
philosophical question