Glossary:I
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Incredulous Design
Awe that is inspired by certain features of reality. While this experience can have profound personal meaning, using this argument in a discussion is not a scientific or logical argument, it is a logical fallacy called an Appeal to Emotion.
Informational design
Purposeful arrangement of parts that yields informational properties, which have a variational quality being distinctly different from order and regularity on the one hand, and disorder and chaos on the other.
Indirect counterflow
Counterflow is perceived through inferential indicators.
Induction
- Reasoning from specific facts to general conclusions.
- A process of reasoning, contrasted with deduction, in which conclusions are drawn that all individuals of a kind have a certain character on the basis that some individuals of the kind have that character.
- Logical inference from what is known with greater certainty to what is known with less certainty.
Innovation detection
Searching for the presence of design input within a preexisting aboriginal design.
Intelligent agency
The recognition and verification that a cognitive process was at work in the causal history of a phenomenon or event.
Intelligent Design
Please bear in mind this is a working definition written by the authors at ResearchID.org. There are currently no widely accepted definitions.
- A protoscientific scientific research program by which novel data, testable hypotheses, experiments, and practical applications are derived by hypothetically viewing certain phenomena in the universe as designed, whether the researcher holds that the objects of study are actually designed or not. [1]
- The science of studying the criteria, parameters and procedures for reliably detecting the activity of an intelligent agent.
See also... Defining Intelligent Design
Intelligibility
A phenomenon or event with a recognizable signal or pattern that can be understood and is comprehensible objectively or extrinsically; understandability.
Intentionality
A phenomenon exhibits indications of teleology (as in purpose, goal, or meaning) in its causal or pre-causal history.
Interlaced design
Condition of an object or event that has some combination of chance, natural regularity, and design as part of its causal history.
Isomorphic design
- Organisms which are morphologically and phenotypically identical in a manner which exhibits counterflow, while being genetically different.
- Organisms which are morphologically, phenotypically, and genotypically identical in a manner which exhibits counterflow.
Isomorphic Instantiation
"Complex technology developed by intelligence is subsequently found to exist in nature." (original definition)
