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MindDecider is lucky to find its own niche among similar decision making tools. The competitors are either too simple to face complex life issues or too math-packed and time-consuming to be intuitive. We hope that MindDecider will make your everyday and business life much easier!

S.Roodchenko, software designer and project director

Every day we have to face a choice. The decision we make defines our future and the multitude of our decisions form our destiny as humans, companies, nations and the whole world. Now you may become the one who creates the future understanding and realizing the present in full. MindDecider is all that you need.
George Makarov, software designer

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
Omar Bradley

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Heinrich Heine

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
John Stuart Mill

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

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MindDecider is lucky to find its own niche among similar decision making tools. The competitors are either too simple to face complex life issues or too math-packed and time-consuming to be intuitive. We hope that MindDecider will make your everyday and business life much easier!

S.Roodchenko, software designer and project director

Subject area type: Hierarchical Thesaurus of English Words

Can you think of 4 types of construction bricks? May be you know what is it made of? Well, builders will easily name adobes, clinkers, firebricks, headers or may be some others and tell in a second that bricks are made of clay. But what about non-builder people? Or, let's say, for example, that you need to evaluate different kinds of poems. That's an easy task for a linguist - ballad, blank verse, elegy, lament, epics, free verse, haiku, sonnet, versicle, etc. What if you are not a linguist?

That's where special dictionaries may help. They are called 'hierarchical thesauruses' (ideographic or ontological dictionaries). The terms in such thesauri are categorized by specific generic features. In this regard, each word, for example 'brick', refers to 3 categorization levels: parent (building material), child (adobes, clinkers, etc) and sibling level (stones, cement, boards, etc). Thus, a tree of generic levels is built.

Let's watch, for example, what a hierarchy chain can be tracked down to the word 'paper slip':

Use of thesaurus in MindDecider v.9.10.28

hypernyms - superordinate generic words or phrases which includes subordinate terms (i.e. 'animal' is a hypernim for 'dog').

hyponyms - more specific terms, subordinate words or phrases ('dog' is a hyponym for 'animal').

synonyms - words with same meanings ('dog' = 'canine').

antonyms - words with opposite meanings ('black' and 'white', 'up' and 'down').

meronyms - terms denoting parts of the whole that is denoted by other terms ('arm' is a meronym of the word 'body').

holonyms - words or phrases denoting the whole whose part is denoted by the other term ('body' is a holonym of 'arm', 'leg' and 'heart').

By default MindDecider's thesaurus is integrated into the installation package. If you use the earlier versions you may download the file 'Word Associations.mda' and then copy it to 'Areas' folder.

Open MindDecider and start a new project.

Open the main context menu and click on 'Select area'.

Select the area 'Word Associations'.

Create new variant, let's say 'horse'.

Click right mouse button on it to open a context menu.

In a right column you'll find a brief list of associations for the given word. Click on any of them to replace the current word with shrewder choice.

To expand thesaurus click on '...' below the list. Here you'll see all words related to the given variant (hyperonyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, antonyms and synonyms).

For each of the proposed words you may open its own list of associations by clicking on a '>' symbol to the right of it.

Use our thesaurus to quickly find right associations, enhance your creative abilities, learn new words and generate ramified mind maps:

Mind map of games using MindDecider thesaurus

References:

Roget P.M., Thesaurus of English Words and phrases.

WordNet lexical database for the English language