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truly collapse: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"

retroactive collapse: descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

basis collapse: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"; the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"

inductive collapse: inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton; of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion; "inductive reasoning"; arising from inductance; "inductive reactance"

inferential collapse: based on interpretation; not directly expressed; derived or capable of being derived by inference; of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion; relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind"

a priori collapse: involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact; "an a priori judgment"; based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment; derived by logic, without observed facts

fact collapse: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"; a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"; a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"; an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

thesis collapse: an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument

deductive collapse: involving inferences from general principles; relating to logical deduction; "deductive reasoning"

fib collapse: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"; tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

data collapse: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data"

retrospective collapse: an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work; concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"

hypothetical collapse: a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical"

foundation collapse: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"; education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge; "he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"; "a good grounding in mathematics"; an institution supported by an endowment; the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"

syllogism collapse: deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises

own up collapse: admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"

statement collapse: a document showing credits and debits; a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"; a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention"; (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"

analytic collapse: of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"; expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection; using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind"; using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus; "analytic statics"

generalization collapse: (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus; reasoning from detailed facts to general principles; an idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities"

assumption collapse: the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"; the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"; a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"; (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended; celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

substantially collapse: in a strong substantial way; "the house was substantially built"

true collapse: proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true"; accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target"; accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"; devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"; consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"; conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"; as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"; make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine"

debunk collapse: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"

conditional collapse: imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"; qualified by reservations

clairvoyance collapse: apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

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