#thinking

• Abstractive — Possessing the capacity, property, or tendency to abstract; relating to the mental process through which general and essential features of an object are extracted and isolated from particular ones. In linguistics, it describes grammatical or derivative mechanisms used to create names for abstract concepts.
• Anti-pessimist — Combating, rejecting, or counteracting pessimism, gloomy visions, or the tendency to anticipate unfavorable outcomes; a person who structurally adopts an attitude of fighting despair, promoting hope, moderate optimism, or constructive realism. This type of moral agent acts as a catalyst for confidence in resolving existential or social crises.
• Anti-rationalist — Belonging to anti-rationalism, demonstrating opposition to rationalism, or contesting the absolute value of reason. As a noun, it denotes the philosopher or thinker who criticizes logical dogmatism, arguing that the deepest human experiences (artistic, spiritual, or intuitive) cannot be understood or explained through rational formulas.
• Self-delusion — The act of deluding oneself or its result; a psychological process whereby a person conceals the truth from themselves and fosters their own illusions or false beliefs to protect themselves from emotional stress, a harsh reality, or a failure; self-deception.
• Self-delusion — The act of deluding oneself and its result; the psychological process through which an individual or a group constructs a false, unrealistic belief system designed to mask an unpleasant or traumatizing reality. In the study of ideologies, the phenomenon can take a collective form, where entire communities accept comforting political or economic myths to the detriment of rational and factual analysis.