reinforcement vs weakening

reinforcement

noun
  • The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated. 

  • A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper. 

  • Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action. 

  • The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced. 

  • A thing that reinforces. 

weakening

noun
  • A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions. 

  • An instance or process of loss of strength. 

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