Hey Four I's! I'd Like a Word With You (Part 9) Quiz

Answer: Criticizing

Hermeneutics is the methodology behind artistic and literary criticism, the formal system or theory "criticizing" the arts, that is, interpreting and judging artistic meaning. The chorus in ancient Greek tragedies often served a "criticizing" role, commenting on the action, judging the decisions made by the characters, and voicing ethical concerns, directly influencing the audience's opinions.

Answer: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf wrote that in her essay "Professions for Women." But actually, she first delivered it in a speech to the Women's Service League in 1931. Later it was published in her posthumous collection "The Death of the Moth and Other Essays" (1942).

The quote and speech discussed the obstacles women face as writers - a phantom representing the Victorian era expectations of feminine purity, sacrifice, and submission. She proposed that this type of "phantom" is more difficult to overcome than physical obstacles because it is entrenched in societal conditioning and absorbed into the collective psyche.

Answer: Ataraxia

Ataraxia is a state of serenity, an imperturbability when someone is free from worry or feeling emotionally disturbed and agitated. This kind of untroubled tranquility is the opposite of irascibility, its antonym. The etymology from Greek combines "a-" meaning "without", with "tarassein" meaning "to bother", therefore meaning "without being bothered". The Greek philosophy of Epicureanism considers ataraxia to be the ideal state of inner peace.

The other answer choices are synonyms for irascibility, not antonyms:
Atrabiliousness has etymology based in humoral terminology, specifically from "black bile" and this unusual word means ill-tempered, or irascible. Acerbity also is an indication of irascibility, connoting a harsh or sharp tone or vibe, a caustic irritable manner. Truculence too is about surliness, aggression, a pugnacious and belligerent ill temper.

Answer: Exhibitionism

Paraphilic refers to repetitive and intense sexual interest in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical of normal sexual arousal. While exhibitionism is recognized as a diagnosable paraphilic disorder, there is a distinction between exhibitionism as a behavior and exhibitionistic disorder as a clinical diagnosis.

The criteria for the exhibitionistic disorder entail current and intense arousal from exposure to an unsuspecting person, acting on these proclivities, and also feeling distress or impairment in social or job areas of functioning. And the duration of the symptoms must last for at least 6 months.

Answer: Bibliophilic

Bibliophilic is itself about a love of words and books. Its etymology derives from one of the oldest cities in the world, the Phoenician city of Byblos (known today as Jbeil, in Lebanon) continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years. "Biblion" meaning "book" originally meant "papyrus" derived from "Byblos" a city that was a major source of papyrus, and "Philos" meant "loving" or "friend."
Philistinism derived from a region called Philistia, not a Phoenician city.

Answer: False

As an example, the multidisciplinary approach might be something like a medical team that has doctors, nurses, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, etc. all working from their own perspective but not integrating their methods. Think of that as a fruit salad where all the fruit is distinct, as opposed to a smoothie where all the fruit is blended, as in an interdisciplinary approach where various roles integrate their methods and theories to create new approaches such as neuroscientists and psychologists integrating to form cognitive studies.

The transdisciplinary approach is not the same as the multidisciplinary approach: In that fruit salad analogy for instance, the metaphor would be that the transdisciplinary approach creates a brand new fruit, genetically modified perhaps. Clear boundaries remain between professionals as they cooperate in the multidiscipline, but in the transdiscipline, boundaries disappear or at the very least are blurred as professionals draw on each other's knowledge for themselves.

A good example would be a story that my dentist once told me about. When he was in dental school, there were some events in which various departments were to visit other seemingly unrelated departments to integrate and see what/if there was something to learn. Now at that time, it was thought that long screws provided the best way for dentists to secure crowns into the jaw bones. But when he and his classmates visited a prosthetic limb-making department they learned, that no, the key thing was the width of the screw, not the length.

Answer: expressing hatred, or disrespect towards a person or group

That contempt and ridicule expressed toward a person or group is done in writing or speaking, and is often publicly done in order to disparage their reputation. It is to incite others to also feel negatively toward the person or group. The word comes from the Late Latin: "vilificare" broken up into vilis meaning "worthless", and -ficare, meaning "to make".

Answer: Gingivitis

Gingivitis is the inflammation of the part of your gum around the base of your teeth, called the gingiva. Gingivitis is reversible, but if it goes untreated it can digress further, becoming the more severe and irreversible periodontitis, which can lead to tooth loss. In the early stages gingivitis can be painless, so it might not be detected easily but there are several symptoms to be aware of: red, swollen gums, bad breath, tender gums, receding gums.

Answer: Prioritizing

Originally used medically, "triaging" is now used more broadly to mean "prioritizing" or sorting issues, problems, etc. by urgency or importance. Triaging may have a connotation of being more emergency-related than the potentially slower thought process of prioritizing but at their core, they both mean sorting things by order of importance.
Triaging derives from the Old French verb "trier", meaning "to sort, sift, or select". Prioritizing originates from the Latin adjective "prior", meaning "former, earlier," or "superior or first in time or order."

Answer: simplification

Martin H. Fischer was notable for his aphorisms on the subjects of medicine, science, and education, and was a professor of physiology at the University of Cincinnati in the early 20th century. This quotation appears in the March 1945 issue of the literary publication, "Encore: A Continuing Anthology", edited by Smith Dent, and also in the 1944 book, "Fischerisms", a compilation of Fischer's sayings by Howard Fabing and Ray Marr.

In the quote, Fischer distinguishes the difference between accumulating information, that is, dry facts (knowledge) and the processing of knowledge into acquiring meaningful insight, or wisdom, through simplification, or distilling those facts into practical approaches to life.

His reputation of broader views about critical thinking in the fields of science and medicine do align with this quotation. Some sources on the internet misattribute this quotation to Martin Luther King, Jr.