But for various reasons, that kind of
hierarchical thinking no longer holds as much sway as it once did.
The idea that one individual might be the savior of painting, as Dunham characterizes Murray, is an example of
hierarchical thinking, the kind of privileging that was rampant throughout the 1960s and «70s.
She challenges the notion of
hierarchical thinking and lineage, the long held belief that you had to take your cues from Paul Cézanne, Arthur Dove, or Albert Pinkham Ryder, for example.
While Hess never says what led up to the sea change in 1962, one cause seems to have been the advent of
hierarchical thinking.
Author, inventor, and «restless genius» Ray Kurzweil explains in How to Create a Mind that the human capability for
hierarchical thinking — in other words, our understanding of how elements can be arranged in a pattern and also represented by symbols — separates us from all other animals.
January 5, 2016 • An experiment, conducted at bars in Kansas, suggests that
hierarchical thinking comes more easily to people than egalitarian thinking.
In other words the essence of
hierarchical thinking still remains valid even in an evolutionary world - view.
We must ask, though, why
hierarchical thinking has been rejected to such a large extent by modernity.
Hierarchical thinking of some sort is necessary if our evolutionary universe is more than one - dimensional.
By its implicit demand that teleology display itself on the level of molecular mechanisms, this Harvard biologist's statement exhibits the difficulty many scientists have today with
hierarchical thinking.
Our ordinary language and thought are still conditioned by
hierarchical thinking.
Thus the issue of science and religion revolves very closely around the question of the legitimacy of
hierarchical thinking.
One might say that
hierarchical thinking relates to linear causality as the theory of algebraic functions relates to elementary arithmetic.
The issue of chance and purpose brings us, therefore, to the question of the plausibility of
hierarchical thinking.
Because of its bearing on the question of purpose, therefore, much of this book will focus on the feasibility and legitimacy of
hierarchical thinking.
They believe that this is inextricably connected to
hierarchical thinking generally, and this they oppose.
Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.
Notions of «power over» dynamics,
hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.
Not exact matches
I
think that Pope Francis is revitalizing the Catholic Church, giving lapsed Catholics, who left the Church because they were disenchanted by its
hierarchical structure and penchant for lavishness, a reason to return.
Feminists have persistently awakened us to the depth to which patriarchy shapes all our disciplines, the disciplinary style of
thinking in general, our way of teaching, and the
hierarchical structure of our institutions, as well as our ignoring of the consequences of our actions for the Earth.
The
hierarchical, dualistic pattern is so widespread in Western
thought that it is often not perceived to be a pattern, but is felt to be simply the way things are.
The first and obvious
thought is that in imagining them away, we are seeking to purify our experience, to come closer to the real world by stripping away emotional projections and
hierarchical assumptions.
We
think that modern science's discovery of the inter-related,
hierarchical unity of all the parts of the cosmos provides a solution: namely that individuals are defined through their universal relationships - see for instance our Sept 2006 editorial: The Catholic View of Matter: Towards a New Synthesis.
I don't
think they are «doing wrong», I just believe that the current
hierarchical model creates a gap between clergy and laity that was never meant to be.
In order to grasp more vividly the way in which the fallacy of mistaking abstractions for concrete realities has inclined
thought in this direction, observe the following «rough» breakdown of nature's
hierarchical structure: 16 i.e.
Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with
hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not
think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).
While Whiteheadian
thought is not free of patriarchal and
hierarchical elements, it is not a closed system.
The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic,
hierarchical mode of Western
thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.
In the latter system of
thought, nature separates levels of reality according to a
hierarchical arrangement — God, angels, man, animals, plants and inanimate matter.
Lear's own compelling phenomenology of irony fits, I
think, rather nicely with Plato's insight that knowing involves the
hierarchical logic of image and exemplar, described most famously in the Analogy of the Divided Line and the Allegory of the Cave.
Although she does not argue that all
thought is but clever ideological cover for oppressing one or another social group, she is aware that the belief that earthly
hierarchical differences are perpetuated in eternity legitimizes those earthly distinctions, both just and unjust.
Nonetheless, I have been able to embrace the
hierarchical mode of
thinking to which they all point as the solution to the bewilderment of our scientific age.
I'm still not entirely sure I could describe what a healthy relationship between church - goer and church looks like and even as I write this I
think my struggle is due to the church being willingly trapped in a
hierarchical (and often male - dominated) system.
Although I am not entirely happy with Smith's recent books on science and religion, especially since they fail adequately to appropriate evolutionary
thought, I
think there is value in his own
hierarchical vision and his critique of the epistemology of control.8
I
think it goes the other way too; those who conceive of God in a
hierarchical mode tend to view society hierarchically too, and tend to view hierarchy as divinely sanctioned.
Poets commonly invoked Nine Muses, and Christian poets
thought of the ninefold
hierarchical order of angels, from those on the moon to the seraphs nearest to God.
I
think that there is more, as I spoke to before, there are prejudice — prejudices and bias that relate to
hierarchical views by a really a paradigm or model of
thinking about how we view birth.
So I
think the most significant implication of this research is that the connectome is organised in a
hierarchical manner, with dense local clusters of neurons — «cliques» — connected to other clusters in different parts of the brain.
Such pathways have typically been
thought of — and drawn — as
hierarchical arrangements; one or a few «master» genes at the top set off a cascade of influence that trickles down to the genes below.
This idea might be considered esoteric were it not for the fact that there are reasons to
think that just such a
hierarchical disintegration by a very large comet had occurred within the past 20 - 30 kyr, the largest remnant being Comet Encke.
Here is some kind of
hierarchical approach on taking 5 key eLearning challenges into account while
thinking about improving eLearning processes in the organization.
From the 1950s on, many psychometricians proposed
hierarchical models, which may be
thought of as a mixture of the single - factor and multiple - factor models.
Yet school leaders «tend to
think of the entire [education governance] system as a
hierarchical - linear system, meaning that they feel they can not influence parts of the system much «higher» or «lower» than their level» (Jean - Marie, Normore, & Brooks, 2009, p. 17).
The three design questions, Design Question 2, Helping students Interact with New Knowledge, Design Question 3, Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge, and Design Question 4, Helping Students Generate and Test Hypotheses, are
hierarchical, with the knowledge and accompanying
thinking becoming more complex as you go from Design Question 2 to Design Question 4.
I
think publisher and literary writer relationships will evolve into much more of a partnership, much less
hierarchical, to reflect this shift.
By building interspecies companionships and by approaching objects and spaces as co performers Kausalainen aims to escape the
hierarchical and linear ways of
thinking and operating.
I can
think of no more
hierarchical place on Earth than the German art world.
Fortunately, conservative -
hierarchical - individualistic investors are not condemned to remain skeptical forever, but can flip the switch from what Daniel Kahneman calls «fast» to «slow»
thinking (Kahneman 2011).
Of course, liberal - egalitarian - communitarian males are no less prone to cognitive biases and group -
think than conservative -
hierarchical - individualistic ones.
Something like a gamma (1.1,1 / 2.0) or gamma (2,1 / 1.5) or a
hierarchical model where the two gamma parameters are linked together... I
think something like this has been done in this paper which — I
think — was mainly a response to the earlier work using a uniform prior, but seems to have shown results using an expert prior which was small at 0C and above 6C.