Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In ethology, pertaining to genetically programmed responses that serve as stimuli for the reaction of others and thus serve as the basis of a communication system.  

Releasing anger on a person or object other than the one that is the source of the anger.  

In ethology, the elicitation of instinctive behavior by inappropriate stimuli that resemble the appropriate stimulus.  

A capacity shared by all languages for referring to objects and events that are distant in either time or space.  

Hostility directed toward a person or object not directly responsible for the frustration that produced it.  

In emergency procedures, one who transmits calls to service units, sending vehicles and EMTs on emergency missions.  

Unequal.  

To be confused as to one’s relationship with either physical surroundings or with respect to a full grasp of a specific set of ideas.  

A person with schizophrenia who has rather ‘diffuse and regressive symptoms characterized by silliness, facial grimaces, and inconsequential rituals, and has changeable moods and poor hygiene. There are few significant remissions and eventually considerable deterioration. This from of schizophrenia was formerly called hebephrenia.  

In psychology, the lack of orderly relations. Alteration in an organic part, causing it to lose most or all of its distinctive characteristics. The breakdown of organic tissue. The action of causing disorder or disturbance.