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quaternity

n. Carl Jung’s fourfold concept of personality, in which there are four functions of the ego: feeling, thinking, intuiting, and sensing (see functional types). For Jung, the quaternity is an archetype exemplified in myriad ways, such as the four points of a compass and the four points of a cross.

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September 1st 2024

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economy

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1. any system of rules and regulations by which something is managed; for example, a token economy is one in which a behavioral system is managed according to the disbursement of tokens as rewards.

2. management of resources in order to maximize efficiency or returns (material or psychological) and to avoid waste.