CRITICAL ANALYSIS GLOSSARY 
Terms relating to ideas, concepts, and beliefs that are not conducive to public, predictable, probable, confirmable, testable, verifiable knowledge.
Whim
Illusion
Guess 
Hunch 
Blind faith
Intuition
Bias
Prejudice
Premonition Dogmatic Authority
"Truth" by definition
"True for me"
Hallucination
Preconception
Uneducated opinion
Dogma
Unwarranted
Assumption
Belief
Claim
Opinion
Experience.
Terms, methods, and concepts which characterize the language of critical analysis, the scientific Method, and testable, verifiable, and falsifiable claims.
Empirical
Observation
Phenomena
Investigation
examination
Discrimination Simplicity
Correspondence rules
Confirmation
Warranted Assertions
Abstraction Systematic
Induction
Scrutiny
Criteria
Similarity
Commonality
Standards
Facts (data)
Evidence
Synthetic
Uniformity
Hypothetico-deductive
If-----then Primitives
Deduction
Theories (require facts)
Hypotheses
Premises
Inferences
Constructs
Tautology
Mathematics
Laws
Rules
Principles
Formulas
Equations
Verification
Mathematical
Empirical
Testable
Predictable
Provisional
Public
Logical
Critical analysis
Analytical attitude
Self-correction
Universal agreement of basic concepts and definitions.
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