diagnosticity

n. the informational value of an interaction, event, or feedback for someone seeking self-knowledge. Information with high diagnosticity has clear implications for the self-concept, whereas information with low diagnosticity may be unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate. The desire for highly diagnostic information about the self is called the self-assessment motive.

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December 27th 2024

causation

1. the empirical relation between two events, states, or variables such that change in one (the cause) brings about change in the other (the effect). See also causality.

2. in Aristotelian and rationalist philosophy, the hypothetical relation between two phenomena (entities or events), such that one (the cause) either constitutes the necessary and sufficient grounds for the existence of the other (the effect), or the one possesses the capacity to bring about the other. —causal adj.