Sentences with phrase «analogical thinking»

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

By reconciling imagination and reason, separated since the famous Discourse on Method of Descartes, Varela and Simon refresh the analogical thinking so precious to Leonardo da Vinci who says to us: «As the bolt rises which we screw in the nut, also will go up the helix which we screw in the air» The practice of the debate proposes a scenography of alive metaphors in a space of artificial intelligence.

Analogical thinking and language emphasize similarities and have been more characteristic of Catholic theology.

The corrective I would like to urge upon Schubert Ogden, then, is not that he abandon his method of process theology based upon analogical thinking, but that he consider some means by which he might avoid the inevitable drift of such thinking toward a closed rationalism, in which only man and his formulations speak forth.

From the self Hartshorne moves by way of analogical thinking and category stretching to describe other entities in the great chain of being (e.g., CSPM 53 - 56).

In this case, analogical thinking is forcing far too many among us to imagine that the only choices in Egypt today are the specter of the Iranian Revolution or the friendly ghost of the American Revolution.

Not exact matches

All our thought and language about God is analogical, and we must ever keep in mind the caution of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) that «No similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is even greater.»

This approach (which is, I think, more impressionistic than analogical) would have the advantage of not forcing all religions into a single, narrow mold — a point to which I shall return.

And just as significant, I think, he nowhere seems to explain, as he clearly has to explain if «conscious» and «knowing» are analogical, how not only the greatest but even the least possible individual must in some sense be said to be conscious and to know, as well as to be aware and to feel.

If Hartshorne is to uphold his claim that terms such as «thinking» and «knowing,» «loving» and «willing,» are analogical in meaning when applied to God, he has to give them a sense infinitely different from the specific sense in which he expressly uses them.

All attempts to know the transcendent aspect of events must be thought of as analogical in character.

A full defence of the analogical mode of thinking about God would require an elaborate discussion.

«Analogical» or fantasy thinking is emotionally toned, pictorial and wordless.»

We could think of the two week - long workshop as aiming at something similar: not a process of instruction or «information delivery», but an ongoing, collective sketch - work that kept discovering past and present interconnections between two sites that are geographically remote but bound together by actual and analogical links.

In the fast - paced frenzy that drives our contemporary societies, where thoughts and impulses are beamed by way of artificial satellites and express the paramount need to scroll through the snippets of information that make up the latest trends, the current post-digital, new - media generation is faced with the unprecedented shift from direct life experience to an artificial way of connecting / disconnecting with the natural / analogical world.