Six of the 15 items were identified as providing unique information about individual levels of latent thought suppression and were determined to provide good discrimination across varying levels of the trait.
He is the first theologian to state unequivocally that the "three hypostases" which constitute the Trinity are eternal not only in nature, but in their hypostatic character; there was never a time when wisdom was the latent thought of the Father and had not yet come forth as speech.
Indeed, in my opinion the most important statement in the whole book occurs in just such a footnote, added relatively late, at the end of Chapter 6: "[Footnote added 1925:] I used at one time to find it extraordinarily difficult to accustom readers to the distinction between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts.
From this material you arrive at the latent dream-thoughts, just as you arrived at the patient's hidden complexes from his associations to his symptoms and memories… The true meaning of the dream, which has now replaced the manifest content, is always clearly intelligible.
Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: "George Fox stands for something too a thought the thought that wakes in silent hours perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.
That security allows me to let out my latent fears and anxieties, articulating thoughts that had been floating around my head in packets of vague badness.
The suggestion is that false belief occurs when someone wants to use some item of latent knowledge in his active thought, but makes a wrong selection from among the items that he knows latently.
This is known as latent TB infection, and its thought around 2 billion people worldwide have it.
A single question, despite being conceptually clear, may give a higher degree of noise than when items are summarized to form a latent variable such as for intrusive thoughts.
One biographer concluded that he may have been a latent or repressed homosexual while another thought he was "pretty well sexless".
