I'm trying to think of a word to use in an essay. What's

pair o' dime shift

>>7654585
No, not that. I'm trying to think of a word that describes the sophistication that human brains have in comparison to animal brains. Like an animal can only form simple thoughts: Bug food, nest good, predator bad. Whereas a human can formulate complex mathematical equations and write literary masterpieces. The sentence is:

"But categorization also allows us to form more complex thoughts by the __________ process of combining categories into more complicated ideas."

The word should be like, something that metaphorically opens doors for new ideas and shit.

>>7654582
Epiphany?

>>7654600
conflatory?

that's quite a hard one
felicity
the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts.
^that's the word that applies, but not the word you need!

desu if this is for a science essay u don't need a word to go in there

>>7654582
Enlightening, elucidating, promising, viable, clarifying, conciliatory, radical, transformative, metamorphic, groundbreaking, revolutionary, evocative, provocative, insurgent, subversive, disruptive, decisive, reshaping, titillating, earthshattering, mindfucking, bushwhacked, idk

>>7654582
>>7654600
I don't see how an adjective fitting the description in post #1 would fit into the sentence in post #2 but whatever it's your essay.

#1: I'm thinking along the lines of "breaking ground", "catalyzing", "revolutionizing", "being a paradigm shift"

#2: I read some late Husserl recently (Cartesian meditations §4) and he speaks of something similar being a central notion of the concept of scientific knowledge (of course in a wide sense of the term), and he does it in terms of "mediate judgements", grounded in earlier judgements, as opposed to the things that are immediate and given. Maybe the process of cumulatively reaching higher levels of judgements could be called a mediating one?

Is the essay on Kant?

Illuminating

>>7654582
I demand answers after writing all of this shit >>7654801

Relevatory?

>>7655463
>yfw when OP didnt deliver

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>>7656118

It "opened up terrifying vistas of reality."