Sentences with phrase «certain kinds of thinking»

I wonder how I can design journalling prompts and activities that thoughtfully and deliberately target certain kinds of thinking.

«The computational system of language is actually telling us how to do certain kinds of thinking,» Wexler suggests.

Not exact matches

I think one of the best ones is for people to just explore what kind of technology we use and how we solve certain problems.

I think there are certain kinds of industries where very powerful men have direct contact with young women who need a «yes» from them in order to succeed.

«When everyone thinks that [a certain kind] of advertising is the «right» thing to do, that's when it has a terrible rate of return,» says Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the Stern School of Business.

Sorry, I thought certain things are just kind of obvious to anyone with the capacity to actually think for themselves.

Religion may be based upon thought and reason, but it is a certain kind of reason.

But the metaphor does direct us toward a process of inquiry involving certain kinds of practical moral thinking which might lead to such conclusions.

While this prediction accords with some ongoing dynamics of Christian history, and while it might be vindicated several centuries down the line, the persistent vitality of traditional Protestantism, as well as certain ecumenical moves by both Catholics and Protestants, suggest this was a kind of pro-Catholic wishful thinking on Tocqueville's part, as well as a too determinedly logical kind of thinking.

William James wrote that he could not accept any rule of thinking that would keep him from accepting «certain kinds of truths if those kinds of truths were really there.»

You could say that thought introduces a certain kind of order of time into the brain.

Rather, however difficult it may be to articulate, we tend to think that a «full» life has a certain kind of shape and direction, involves certain stages of development.

To the extent that Santayana thinks solipsism has its own kind of rationality, this is indeed because he ascribes a certain completeness to a single state of mind, so that what is fully present to it does not absolutely prove that there is anything beyond.

In SCT par.36, Collingwood makes a distinction between eternal objects of historical thought and Whitehead's eternal objects and examines their relation: «The eternal objects of historical thought are concrete eternal objects, e.g., the revolution of 1688; Whitehead's eternal objects are abstract eternal objects, e.g. a certain kind of blueness, or (returning to 1688) the exact configuration of the splash made when James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames.

It's got to be a challenge to come up with a thought and cartoon every day that continually exposes the «horrors» of «church» and «pastors» and «congregations» of a certain kind — the manipulating, brainwashing, dominant / subservient, money - driven kind.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

Therefore in process thought, mass must be a certain kind of objectification of a determinate form of a nexus that persists over time.

It was only intended to show that certain concepts of the scholastic philosophy of nature, such as eductio a potentia materiae, if they are thought out without prejudice, compel us to think on lines which are perhaps of a kind to throw light on the real problem that concerns us here.

This is not the place to examine whether and under what conditions someone may certainly and invincibly think that he holds and must hold some secular proposition of a rigorously certain kind, (some truly «incontrovertible result of science»), whose compatibility with a doctrine of the faith he not merely can not actually in fact perceive, but one whose incompatibility with the doctrines of faith he thinks he perceives with quite inescapable certainty.

Whether, then, the Hebrews conceived of spirit as a finer kind of matter, as in certain strands of Greek thought, is not apparent.

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

He states that a man may have immediate awarenesses of two kinds: intuitive awareness of his own thoughts and feelings and sympathetic awareness of certain changes in parts of his body.21 The second type of direct human awareness involves the principle that the objects immediately known in sensation or perception are always objects inside the body and never objects outside the body.

To certain huckstering kinds of consideration he thanked God he was forever inaccessible, and if in life's vicissitudes he should become destitute through their lack, he was glad to think that with his sheer valor he was all the freer to work out his salvation.

Although I would agree that a certain kind of teleology is present in the cosmos, I think the term «design» is too narrow and misleading in any discussion with those who emphasize the role of chance in evolution.

The first [approach] is at a certain level the same kind of thinking that says we need to have surplus parking.

I seem to always put some kind of spin on a recipe... this time it was for lack of certain ingredients... and then what I thought was a disaster, ended up being a delicious surprise!

I am certain he is still secretly nauseated today but will be thinking up some new way to spew some kind of vile nonsense in the media.

He simply wants to be thought of as a certain kind of person and so he makes an effort to mimic that kind of person.

However, I think it takes a certain kind of ignorance to claim that he's any worse than our last president.

Also, you may be American but don't you think it is possible that being a fan of not only American sporting events but also in particular of Italian football has conditioned you to expect a certain kind of refereeing?

I think that certain kinds of adult privilege are exacerbated when children are a minority.

But others thought and expected they'd be married with kids by a certain age but didn't find a good partner, as Melanie Nokin details in her new book Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness.

CATHERINE: And so I do, so I've been doing this weekly series called The Momma Interviews, and so it's been kind of fun just to get you know, advice and um, support from other moms, you know»cause I think a lot of times we're in this by ourselves or we're the only ones that feel a certain way, so what would you say um, so one of the questions I ask is, what do you feel is your greatest personal struggle with the experience of motherhood.

(possibly people don't think it's that dangerous to pack food in plastic, or certain kinds of plastic... happy to hear good reasons to support that thought too)»

AMANDA DICKEY: I would say the milk supply, I think that something we decide later was that maybe a certain pump that I was using at the beginning kind of dropped my milk supply and it was hard for me to get it back up.

LYETTE REBACK: I'm listening into this and I'm just thinking like while this research to be pointing in a certain direction at the same time I have sixteen kids one born at twenty six weeks one born three weeks their early, all kinds of different experiences.

HanClinto I think the important thing to remember is to always do some kind of nap ritual before you put him down for a nap (sing a certain song, cuddle, rock him for a few minutes etc).

I think it's also the fact that food - service companies think kids want and will only eat certain kinds of foods, otherwise known as crap with a capital «C.» They expect the worst, so they serve the worst.

We might thus think of the republic as a system of political and economic regulation aimed at the generation of a certain kind of political and economic subject.

This issue, however, about the nature of citizenship in republican thought and the (pre) conditions for certain kinds of citizen activity pose a difficulty when turning to republicanism for guidance in contemporary democracies.

Gangi also thinks that as a lifelong New Yorker, he can curry the support of people «who have a certain kind of chauvinism about New York City.»

«I don't think Tony Blair has read or seriously engaged with [our arguments]... Nostalgia is a wicked thing because it sanitises the past — as wicked as a certain kind of cruel modernism that sees no benefit in the past.

And related to this, I think, was (is) a lack of ideas about how to stand up to certain kinds of powerful interest.

«Now people removed all that I said about the poor management of the economy and then made it look like I started by talking about the resource locations of this thing and put it forward and changed certain things to make me look like I was being a tribalist and it was bad, this is where I find people very mischievous;... You take the whole thing out of context and make it look very tribalistic, so, I think, yes, it happened, newspapers reported something wrong and I think people should be ashamed of themselves when they do this kind of «cut and paste» to create that wrong impression in the system...» Mr Osafo Marfo clarified.

Steve: This is really interesting material, I think, because perhaps many of the listeners are familiar with older research, for example, that found that the aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme is not available for certain people, and that for them, drinking in excess is really uncomfortable, so they tend not to, but that's more of a direct genetic biochemical kind of a system related to the alcohol molecule ultimately as it gets metabolized.

Bierut: The way that we generally think about it is that this disinhibition is in with behavioral — undercontrol, impulsivity, risk - taking, kind of making some poor choices at times, so drinking those extra drinks when you maybe shouldn't or drinking at a time that you shouldn't, and some of this loss of control that you may have over certain behaviors.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

Steve: The whole intent here is just to generate ads in newspapers or television that make the voter think that certain environmental groups are actually behind this kind of legislation?

The default network also becomes active during certain kinds of self - referential thinking, such as reflecting on personal experiences or picturing yourself in the future.

I don't think we know what they were fighting about, but at a certain point he got the middle part of his nose, I guess the bridge of his nose chopped off or badly damaged by his enemy's sword, and then throughout his adult life he had to wear either a prosthetic — I think that was the deal basically, he had different kinds of prosthetic noses that he wore and he was always like applying some ointment to keep the prosthetic in place, so his other enemies would make fun of him, you know, «Ha ha, you're that guy without a nose, aren't you silly?»