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: ''A type of [[apophenia]], the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Common examples include seeing faces in inanimate objects or perceived images of faces, animals, or objects in cloud formations. Pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by running water or air conditioners.''
 
: ''A type of [[apophenia]], the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Common examples include seeing faces in inanimate objects or perceived images of faces, animals, or objects in cloud formations. Pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by running water or air conditioners.''
 
: ~ [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia]{{WP}}
 
: ~ [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia]{{WP}}
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Latest revision as of 20:53, 28 August 2026

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Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

~ Panopticon[ Wikipedia ]


Paradox

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Paradoxes

Examples:
  • Anarchism (no rulers) means anyone is free to start a gang, mafia, government, etc.
  • Body verses mind (can't have one without the other).
  • Ends verses means.
  • Equity verses equality.
  • Fairness in judgements of objectivity verses subjectivity.
  • Life.
  • My reliable sources verses your reliable sources.
  • Peaceful resistance to the monopoly on violence.
  • Safe dangerous.
  • Tolerance of the intolerant.
  • Wellbeing of the self verses the wellbeing of your communities verses the wellbeing of the world (of which we're all in).
  • Value.
  • Youth is wasted on the young.


Pareidolia

A type of apophenia, the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Common examples include seeing faces in inanimate objects or perceived images of faces, animals, or objects in cloud formations. Pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by running water or air conditioners.
~ Pareidolia[ Wikipedia ]

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Pareto principle

AKA: the 80/20 rule, or the law of the vital few and, the principle of factor sparsity

For many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").


PayPal mafia

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Pedophocracy

commonly known as political pedophilia or pedogate,

A term to describe accusations of secretive pedophilia, child sexual abuse, and occultic practices among "elites" (including regional authorities, religious leaders, high-ranking public officials and wealthy businesspeople - the ruling class), which are usually dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream. Pedophilia is not only used for profit, but to own, control, and destroy the powerful. Awareness grows beyond conspirophile culture and truther movements despite endless thought-police efforts as critics allege the mainstream corporate-controlled media downplay, ignore, or censor discussion with dynamic silence tactics to keep attention off this topic and their sinister control matrix.


The Peter Principle

A concept in management, by Laurence J. Peter in 1969, observing that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence": employees are promoted by success in previous jobs until no longer competent, since one job's skills does not always translate to another.


Philosophical razor

Or Epistemological razor

In philosophy and epistemology, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (shave off) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.

Examples:

  • Alder's razor (also known as Newton's flaming laser sword): If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.
  • Grice's razor (also known as Guillaume's razor): As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.
  • Gro's razor: Assume malice when incompetence can adequately explain a situation.
  • Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  • Hitchens' razor: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
  • Hume's guillotine: What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is; prescriptive claims cannot be derived solely from descriptive claims, and must depend on other prescriptions.
  • Hume's Proportionality of Cause: "If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that cause, or add to it such qualities as will give it a just proportion to the effect."
  • Occam's razor: Explanations that require fewer assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary assumptions.
  • Popper's falsification criterion of demarcation: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.
  • Sagan standard: Positive claims require positive evidence, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
~ Philosophical razor[ Wikipedia ]


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Phrygian cap

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Phylaxis

(medical) The protection against infection or infectious disease.
(defensive) Guarding against cultural destruction, cyber warfare, ideological subversion, malicious infiltration, medical tyranny, political corruption, psychological operations, wealth theft, and weaponized migration. [This uniquely original definition is started here on Projex.Wiki in hopes of wider usage.]


Political pendulum

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Political ratchet

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Political system

Main article: Political systems.


Polycrises

The term polycrisis, also referred to as a metacrisis or permacrisis, describes a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other, resulting in a predicament which is difficult to manage or resolve. Unlike single crises which may have clear causes and solutions, a polycrisis involves overlapping and interdependent issues, making it a more pervasive and enduring state of instability. This concept reflects growing concerns about the sustainability and viability of contemporary socio-economic, political, and ecological systems. Coined in the 1990s, the concept became popular in the 2020s to refer to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, war, surging debt levels, inflation, climate change, resource depletion, growing inequality, artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, and democratic backsliding. Critics of the term have characterized it as a buzzword or a distraction from more concrete causes of the crises.
~ Polycrises[ Wikipedia ]
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Ponerology

(from Greek poneros, "evil") A study of evil, in theology. Major subdivisions of the study are: nature of evil; origin of evil; and evil relating to the Divine Government. Agathology = the Doctrine of the Good; Ponerology = Doctrine of the Bad; Soteriology = Doctrine of Salvation.

~ Ponerology[ Wikipedia ]


Praxis

  1. The practical application of any branch of learning.
  2. (drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
  3. (philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
  4. Custom or established practice.
  5. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
~ praxis[ Wiktionary ]
noun | (countable and uncountable, plural praxes or praxises) ; Etymology : Partly from Latin prāxis and partly from its etymon Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).
See also: Especifismo


Predictive programming

Many theorists allege that the contents of fictional media, in a process called "predictive programming", are manipulated to reference planned false flags, technological innovations, social changes, and other future events. These references are understood to be a conditioning and brainwashing tool, such that the public becomes more accepting of these events than they would be otherwise. Predictive programming theories have been used to explain events such as the September 11 attacks, COVID-19 pandemic, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk and connected with media such as Die Hard, The Simpsons, Contagion, and anime such as Blue Gender.

~ List of conspiracy theories #Predictive programming[ Wikipedia ]

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Privacy

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Privatization

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Programmable money

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Propaganda

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AKA: public relations

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Psychological operations

AKA: psyop, psy-op, psyops, psy-ops

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Psychological warfare

AKA: psywar, psy-war, psy war

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Public relations

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AKA: propaganda

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Pushing the hypothesis

Main article: Terminology/P/Pushing the hypothesis, started by User:LarrySwinger

AKA: Pushing your hypothesis

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