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Deepa Has Finally Decided Where to Attend Graduate School-University of Illinois

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Deepa has finally decided where to attend graduate school-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After she has informed all the schools of her final decision, she begins to question her choice. However, she immediately focuses on all the reasons Illinois was the best choice for her and better than her other options by far. This reassures her and makes her happy again. Deepa's feeling of uncertainty and subsequent motivation to justify her choice is an example of ____.


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Presuppositions

Implicit assumptions or beliefs that are taken for granted in communication or reasoning.

Innate Ideas

Ideas that we are born with, which may include tendencies to think in certain ways that are hardwired into our minds.

Empirical Ideas

Concepts or thoughts derived from or verified by observation, experience, or experiment as opposed to theory or pure logic.

Indubitable

Not susceptible to being doubted.

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