Sentences with phrase «thinking about the assumptions»

Think about the assumptions made by those calculations.

Think about the assumptions implicit in the latter part and you will.

Not exact matches

They stimulated you to think about new ways of doing things, allowed you to question assumptions, and never criticized you for making mistakes.

«Today, our default assumption about creativity is that it's the result of serendipitous exchanges, of brainstorming, of ideas building on each other rapidly and spontaneously — not a result of hard thinking that requires serious concentration.»

The way Zuckerberg and Facebook may be thinking about user acquisition then has far less to do with simply adding more users, but rather giving communities the tools they need to build meaningful connections (under the assumption that they too will invite others to join the group, and subsequently Facebook as a platform).

Faced with a rapidly chilling climate for funding, Hanrahan and Dua agreed they needed to proceed on the assumption that this round would be the last available to them and to think about how it could carry them through to profitability.

Forward - thinking companies actively develop the collective literacy and contextual intelligence of the board — cultivating, in particular, a shared set of assumptions about where their industry and markets are going so that they are prepared to make the right risk / reward judgment calls together with management.

Begin with strategic thinking to evaluate your fundamental assumptions about site users (what their needs and goals are).

In this issue of Institutional Strategy Quarterly, we explore the details behind our own long - term return assumptions and risk management process while also focusing on ways in which investors can think about the relationships among risk, return, and portfolio construction in this lower - return environment.

You can't use the architecture of the building to make any assumptions about the thinking of the Founding Fathers, only the thinking of the mores in place at * that * time.

The fact that you are not comfortable talking about it, however, does lead me to make some assumptions (but I don't think they're «fatal» ones).

I'd like to think that I know what I'm talking about, although I need to be vigilant about policing my assumptions and «beliefs».

Your inability to think about why non-believers come here, your sophmoric assumptions about why they do, and your dictation as to what they can and can not speak of is truly entertaining.

As for the many assumptions you seem to think I am making about you... I am at a total loss.

Section II offers some comments about the general cast of Altizer's thought and its fundamental assumptions.

And lest you think this post is about finger - pointing, I have no doubt in my mind that if my own assumptions and prejudices go totally unchecked, if I never stop for a moment to consider the other side and wonder if I might be wrong, I too am capable of using the Bible to my own ends, of convincing myself that God is on my side.

But... despite all their hard thinking about educational method and styles of teaching, and despite the bewildering multiplicity of subjects embraced in their higher culture, none of them really understood the assumptions on which his profession was based.»

I think the assumptions which bug me tend to be about Judaism writ large, not about Jews as individuals.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

I suspect, however, that Christians may find on analysis that they are in greater tension than they think with many of the assumptions about care and the Value of survival embodied in modern medicine.

The problem with your assumption is that you think atheists make a positive statement about anything.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

I thought liberals were supposed to be tolerant, oh I forgot, you're only scream tolerance when it's about you and your assumption of percieved assaults.

Recently, several important studies have appeared that, in addition to contributing historical evidence on Puritanism, also offer some interesting new ways of thinking about the theoretical assumptions concerning religion and ideology in the Weberian tradition.

The assumption hidden in this procedure is that pure and true thought about reality can occur only when it is removed from act and practice follow theory: doing is an extension of knowing.

This assumption is common among highly intelligent people, like Weinberg, who haven't thought much about the history and character of Christianity except as a sociological or psychological phenomenon.

I have chosen these four theoretical perspectives because they help make explicit some of the assumptions that are likely to influence the ways we think about the relations between religious institutions and state structures.

Even so, I found Hartshorne's work to be highly suggestive for unfolding the distinctively Christian vision of God, perhaps because his own value assumptions have been significantly conditioned by the impact of biblical faith on Western thinking about God.

If they think about their own tradition in the light of religious pluralism, the need to consider the basic assumptions of diverse traditions becomes even more important.

- John R. can come back and respond, however, I'm willing to bet that one of the things that he would suggest is which you seemed to have totally missed given your posting is... to friggin «think» about your unquestioned beliefs and assumptions that you have regarding your religious beliefs that have been passed on to you from other people.

The assumption is that the vision of faith always has a particular and determinate form which materially conditions the way we think about God.19

The reason this has proved to be such a problem in process thought has less to do with the peculiar nature of Whitehead's concept of God than with an underlying assumption about prehension.

There's an underlying set of assumptions about the world that have been present within this set of thread of Western thoughts that weren't necessarily the way the Bible's authors thought.

(Straight people, you would think, would also think about this — as some are called to celibacy — but there's just an assumption that everyone will pair up in the end.)

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Christine, I think we both talked past one another when speaking about homophobia and assumptions.

Taylor wants not simply to show us how we think and talk about what matters, but to help us see what assumptions are behind that particular way of talking.

Recognizing these assumptions about theology and epistemology helps to explain why Protestants in the United States keep repeating traditional ways of thinking about «truth.»

, we should stop to think about our own experiences, biases and assumptions.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

I wish that it was only assumption that caused you to think wrongly about the Christian faith but I believe it is done with malicious intent.

Dr. DuBose said that God will not work in spite of us, but in us and through us; and often enough our problems about prayer are really caused by our assumption that prayer is answered by some bolt from the blue which contradicts everything that we have ever done, ever known, ever thought.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

Ricoeur thinks away naive, subject - object oriented, assumptions about willing, to explore the way both «self» and «world» are constituted in acts of decision, action, and consent.

Third, I make no assumptions about who the author is or whether he was male or female; for I do not think it matters.

Right now, however, doors are slamming and voices are raised upstairs, so I think I'd better go put my own assumptions about children and parenting, if not education right now, into some kind of forceful action.

We can not even begin to know how to think about such matters until we break out of the assumption that they are determined primarily in terms of interpersonal criteria.

What I think I'd like to do is to write about it here in a series of posts, hand - in - hand with these homeschool book posts, taking on what I think he gets right as well as assumptions about children, parenting, and education with which I take issue.

When we decide to follow, we are called to lay down some of our most valuable possessions: our understanding of the world, our view of right and wrong, our assumptions about whom God favors and whom God despises, our ways and our thoughts.

This is a theory we have brought in; scientists when they are thinking about the world, though they may believe they are thinking homogeneously, are imparting a whole lot of assumptions.