Humanities
- in philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis
- a cognitive skill in Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
- In philosophy and science, a higher a priori process than analysis
- in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language
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“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
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