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salience

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The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.

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A visit by Erwin Chargaff to England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Watson and Crick. Source: Internet

In a sense, the obviative can be defined as any third-person ranked lower on a hierarchy of discourse salience than some other (proximate) discourse-participant. Source: Internet

While Pornhub’s enablement of CSAM is of particular salience, its fundamental lack of accountability is not so different from that of most of Big Tech. Source: Internet

Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler believe credit cards have less salience than cash and a gambler's mentality is centered in self-denial. Source: Internet

;Causation and salience Our view of causation depends on what we consider to be the relevant events. Source: Internet

These studies showed that the caudal part of the anterior cingulate cortex plays a more important function in cognitive activities that involve attention, salience, interference and response competition. Source: Internet

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