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Key concepts are ideas that are abstract, timeless and broadly applicable. These are the foundations of knowledge and primary benefit of learning as they can be applied to a great many problems. While the details of a lesson, textbook or creative work are quickly forgotten, key concepts can potentially stay with learners for their entire life. The following are illustrative examples of key concepts.
A Posteriori | A Priori | A/B Testing | Abstraction | Accountability | Analysis | Antifragile | Argument | Arrow of Time | Artifacts | Assumptions | Attitudes | Automation | Benchmarking | Biases | Capabilities | Capitalism | Causation | Cause & Effect | Change | Chaos | Character | Civility | Classification | Cohort | Collectivism | Commodities | Controls | Correlation | Criteria | Critical Mass | Culture | Demand | Design Thinking | Efficiency | Emergence | Emotion | Empiricism | Entropy | Epic Meaning | Ethics | Ethos | Experiments | False Dichotomy | Falsifiable | First Principles | Free Will | Freedom | Generalization | Globalization | Groupthink | Hegemony | Heritage | Human Experience | Idealism | Ideology | Individualism | Intangible | Intuition | Logic | Logos | Markets | Objectivity | Pathos | Postmodernism | Pragmatism | Processes | Productivity | Rational Thought | Rationale | Rationalism | Reactance | Refinement | Relativism | Rights | Risk | Root Cause | Scientism | Social Constructs | Strategy | Subculture | Supply | Synthesis | Systems | Systems Thinking | Tactics | Values | Virtue | Whataboutism | |
The key concepts above are widely applicable. It is common for key concepts to be subject specific. For example, key concepts such as species, genetics and evolution in biology.
Key Concepts
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