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- noun Lack of
commitment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A biopositive mode is characterized by the trend towards autonomy and the trend towards homonomy, whereas a bionegative mode is characterized by the pattern of vicarious living and the pattern of noncommitment.
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The pattern of noncommitment is the result of the trend towards autonomy being overemphasized and overpowering the trend towards homonomy — the individual is obsessed with protecting itself because it does not feel safe and thus remains guarded, constricted, and at times hostile.
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Religious conservatives dig in their heals and reject scientific understanding wherever they feel it contradicts their tradition, thus sacrificing the connection their institutions have to common reality (loss of homonomy/pattern of noncommitment).
On the Death of God 2009
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The pattern of noncommitment arises as a result of the individual having an inconsistent/difficult environment from which rational and successful adaptations are not easily formed.
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From this we can create a schemata that can then be used to assess any given worldview or paradigm by where it falls on an axis between homonomy vs. noncommitment and an axis between autonomy vs. vicarious living.
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But it closed its eyes to the rest of the world in order to maintain its autonomy (pattern of noncommitment), and thus fell into stagnation.
On Duality 2009
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The bionegative system exhibits two patterns — the pattern of noncommitment and the pattern of vicarious living.
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The homonomy/noncommitment axis can be used to assess epistemology — whereas a biopositive epistemology is pragmatic (reason based) and develops principles to fit evidence, a bionegative epistemology is dogmatic (faith based) and organizes evidence to fit principles.
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In other words, once women begin to adopt certain male dating traits, such as initiating a date, they are also assumed to have adopted other traditionally male objectives, i.e., noncommitment sex.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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In other words, once women begin to adopt certain male dating traits, such as initiating a date, they are also assumed to have adopted other traditionally male objectives, i.e., noncommitment sex.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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