Sentences with phrase «closed systems of thought»

It is easy to become consumed by details, which lead us into closed systems of thought and blindness to the limitations of those systems.

It attempts to enforce a closed system of thought, that must reject conflicting claims regardless of which is the more logical conclusion — if it simply accepted evidence when it was due, it would lose all credibility, because the «word of God» can not be considered fallible.

Communism, the antithesis of anarchism, [Footnote 3/5] appears today as a closed system of thought representing Stalin's

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They never simply create demand «out of thin air», as many analysts seem to think, and doing so would violate the basic accounting identity that equates total savings in a closed system with total investment.

If digital natives spring to the defence of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook too quickly or with too much vehemence they face the genuine risk of being associated with all the things — Trump, Russia, dark closed systems for thought control, right wing politics — that most of these bright young people should be opposed to.

As a consequence, the reader is left with a partial view of Hua - yen thought, condensed to a closed, muffled, ineffective, and flat system, relatively speaking.

While Whiteheadian thought is not free of patriarchal and hierarchical elements, it is not a closed system.

Those who think on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

... if Man organizes himself gradually on a global scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element is intellectually and affectively connected with every other, he will attain to a maximum of individual mastery by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the system as a whole.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

It means that nature can be thought of as a closed system whose mutual relations do not require the expression of the fact that they are thought about.

It would seem, then, that these concepts lie close to the basis of Ecclesiastes» whole system of thought.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

@brada — thanks.i thought i was insane, just thinking that thought of we missing giroud.you know arsenal believes in the fluid system of passing the ball and keeping possession but when we play a team that presses well and close down space, passing out from the back becomes difficult (for some reason, i du n no our passing has not been as fluid as the era of FAB, NASIRI, SONG ETC).

I honestly think that the end of the season «slump» is because after some of those close games the team was transitioned away from that two dimensional system.

I think we were all relieved when the Frenchman finally decided to give the increasingly popular back three system a go towards the end of last season, with no small success, and you could well argue that if he had done so earlier then we may have finished a lot closer to the top of the Premier League.

Even if you think he's a good player (which I don't, though I acknowledge this season he's clearly worked hard to improve his game) Walcott isn't going to work in a 3 -4-3 any time soon, as (a) he can't really play well as a center forward, at least not anywhere close to consistently, and (b) the wide forwards in this system really need to be creative, especially when the midfield two consists of Xhaka and Coquelin, and the Ox isn't out there as a wing back who can create on the dribble.

And if you're in the market for a pump, check out my take on the type of pump to get (think reusable portable ones, and it's worth noting that Lansinoh offers an affordable closed - system pump that should have been on my reusable pump list).

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In New York's closed primary system, only those affiliated with a party (think of it like an exclusive club with many members) can vote in that party's primary.

I think there are some areas where clearly there is value and rationale in there being closer decision - making between Wales, Scotland and England, whether that's around higher education funding or about how we're going to fund social care in future [or] the nature of our education systems.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

He told Press Association: «I have always liked Mark Reckless, but if he thinks he can just leave after being elected on a list system that is very dishonourable behaviour... He is clearly close to Douglas Carswell, I guess some kind of pressure's been put on him.»

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

The pledge to eventually close Rikers, a proposition once thought to be politically and practically unfeasible, came as an independent commission was about to release a 97 - page report that recommended replacing the jails on Rikers with a system of smaller, borough - based jails, at a cost of $ 10.6 billion.

In a sign of the seismic shifts in Labour thinking, Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister and one of Brown's closest allies, writing in the Guardian today, calls for a move towards an alternative vote system to «help rebuild the trust and authority given to our elected representatives».

The Administration for Children's Services has scheduled four of five community hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «Close to Home Initiative» that would take New York City's juvenile delinquents out of the state detention system and allow the city to provide them with the placements they think are best for them and near their homes.

They are the natural end state of the collapse of a rotating cloud of debris, and as such, they are the closest analogue to the rubble disk we think provided the raw ingredients for our own solar system.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

If a few key characteristics such as an exoplanet's topography and rotation rate are just right, then the inner edge of the habitable zone — the region in a solar system where conditions conducive to life can arise — will be closer to the host star than is usually thought.

«I think we're very close to being able to put this propulsion system onto a satellite for a simple demonstration of propulsion capability in space,» said Tappan.

Comets are thought to contain the early building blocks of the solar system, and returning such samples to Earth would allow close analysis.

The two researchers prepared a closed system of glass flasks and tubes and injected a gaseous mixture of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water — four basic compounds thought to be abundant in Earth's primitive atmosphere.

Then Smash Bros that h as a much larger fanbase than most of us think and combined with Bayonetta it should sell a couple of systems not to much, but by the end of the year Wii U should have sold close to 9M, but that is still far from good enough... Then they will start 2015 with Zelda U in feb, Star Fox or something else for April, then Metroid for late summer?

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

While Bill Padia, director of the policy and evaluation division at the California Department of Education, thinks California's state accountability plan is «relatively close» to full NCLB compliance, he too reports that California educators are skeptical of a system where «you just raise the bar every year and the bar will be up at 100 percent in 12 years.»

It is suffering from a rarely perceived but insidious form of paradigm paralysis and closed - system thinking...

First, I will say that as a former person in charge of teacher preparation in the state of New York that the portions of this report that talk about the importance of alignment, of the higher education system and the P12 system, and really understanding the ways in which we're providing opportunities for teacher candidates to have longer residencies and we're thinking about ways in which teacher candidates are participating in coursework and practice, experiences that allow them to really apply what they're learning in ways that they're getting more at bats and they're becoming more confident and they're entering the system with a set of skills that are gonna help close those gaps and help those secondary students be successful is important.

The state standards (TEKS) and assessment system (STAAR) call for a close analysis of texts that demonstrates critical thinking skills.

I think you should be focusing on the closed loop fuel control system instead of that spark advance value.

I'm not too hot on American stuff but I can only think of one management system that uses a knock sensor as part of a closed loop system for advance control, from Saab turbos.

Mercedes - Benz's C350 coupe is another close competitor, but I think I'd rather deal with Lexus» annoying touchpad than spend any amount of time fiddling with Benz's Command and mBrace systems.

Elliot, you're right in a way — IF you choose to work in a system that relies on a credit score, closing cards CAN sometimes be bad, and there are plenty of sites out there that would back up your thoughts 100 %.

Other things also point to a general lack of polish and thought, such as how the GPS system doesn't reroute you to another Repair Shop or hideout should you get closer to it.

I'm having to go back into my «game tester» mindset, and the closest thing I can think of is that it's either that black rubber piece on the front of the system that keeps dust out and discs stabilized, or....

The developers want to call it a survival / management game, but really, it's closer to a visual novel with a very number - intensive stat and crafting system than what I think of as a survival game.

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