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Practice: a set of specific, repeatable behaviors performed

Practice: a set of specific, repeatable behaviors performed regularly enough to become dispositional, requiring ongoing attention, deliberate cultivation, and structured repetition to maintain cognitive capacities like self-authority

Why This Is a Definition

This definition establishes practice as a functional category with clear operational characteristics (specific behaviors, regular repetition, dispositional formation) and distinguishes it from mere activity or habit. It explains the mechanism by which practice maintains cognitive capacities.

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Self-authority as a practice

Self-authority is not a state you achieve — it is a practice you maintain. Like any practice, it requires regular exercise, ongoing attention, and deliberate cultivation.

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Defines (26)

AxiomCognitive Defusion: Thoughts Are Objects AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource AxiomHindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity AxiomHabits as Context-Response Associations AxiomTwo-Level Metacognitive Architecture AxiomExpertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking AxiomAutomatic Fusion of Observation and Interpretation AxiomCognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance AxiomAttention as Gate to Conscious Perception AxiomNeural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning AxiomPatterns Exist in Hierarchical Logical Levels AxiomExpertise Through Deliberate Practice AxiomPerceptual Plasticity Through Training AxiomBias Blind Spot Asymmetry AxiomExternalization Exposes Hidden Structure AxiomExpertise as Domain-Specific Schema Organization AxiomConsciousness Requires Global Neural Integration AxiomCognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems AxiomMental States Are Cognitively Imputable AxiomCognitive and Affective Empathy Are Distinct AxiomAutomatic Pattern Perception AxiomFlexible Context-Dependent Categorization AxiomWhen organisms are repeatedly exposed to aversive situations AxiomDefault options determine behavior more reliably than AxiomSelf-efficacy — belief in one's capacity to execute a AxiomHuman cognition operates through schemas — structured

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