Sentences with phrase «coherent thoughts for»

Four years later, Chris finds himself working the graveyard shift cleaning up during closing hours at a local bank, with dreams of becoming a teller all but dashed by his inability to form coherent thoughts for long periods of time.

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It's entirely coherent for us to think that returning the money would be a good thing to do, even if we don't think he's obligated to do so.

Yet for all the book's strengths, it is one thing to demonstrate that a system of thought or group of practices are coherent; it is quite another to demonstrate that they are good.

But if memoria is the essential retrospective faculty for the believer seeking to make a coherent Christian life, it will only be exercised by those who think such retrospection potentially valuable — that is, for those who are hopeful.

Nevertheless, the possibility of a coherent quantum theory based on process thought is, in principle, important for the project of recovering a comprehensive vision in which a biblical understanding of God finds an important role.

In other words, as Whitehead notes, for Plato «determinations of incompatibilities and incompatibilities are the key to coherent thought» (AI 147).

Read those books and your thoughts are likely to be more clear and your words more coherent, no matter if you argue for or against the existence of God.

From the perspective of the complete books as coherent statements, one will regard not the sentence but the paragraph (or the equivalent for poetry, the stanza) as the basic unit of thought.

Hartshorne is able to unite thought and experience for the believer because he has largely succeeded in developing a concept of God that is internally coherent and externally adequate to religious faith in God as the proper object of worship.

-- the theists have not provided a coherent argument or evidence for the existance of god, other than «wishful thinking»

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

To avoid that kind of crisis as you read this article, let's define what we mean by «Christian Privilege» for the sake of coherent and consistent thinking.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

Thus, for the founders of modern science and philosophy, the world was rational in the sense of conforming to an intelligible pattern, and thought about the world should be coherent.

When we acknowledge that our pictures do not represent reality, then we can also give up the quest for a coherent system of thought to describe the world.

The beliefs are just so far out there for me, that whenever I see someone in ardent support of them I have to think they're a troll, because I don't know how they could possibly believe or accept that (there are a few exceptions of people who pt things very well, cite supporting evidence, and are consistent and coherent - I don't agree with them, but I can at least understand what they're saying)

But theology's plan for «greening» America and the rest of the earth by play and make - believe signaled little more than its utter estrangement from any coherent community of language and thought.

Nor does he wonder why, twenty years after Harry Blackmun thought he had put the matter definitively to rest, the Supreme Court is still struggling for a coherent rationale to justify its original intervention.

I find all this, after thinking about it for some seventy years, almost ludicrous in its begging of questions and failure to make coherent sense.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 31) This goal of elucidation is apparent when he says that rational religion's aim is to make it «the central element in a coherent ordering of life... in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 30) Religion's final product is the provision of «a meaning, in terms of value, for our own existence, a meaning which flows from the nature of things.»

In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

It thus follows, as he notes, that the determination of compatibilities and incompatibilities is the key to coherent thought, and to the understanding of the world in its function as the theatre for the temporal realization of ideas» (Adventures 147).

(Give me benevolent dictator powers, and I might go for an AV / AMS 50 - 50 hybrid rather than AV + or AMS, though I would see straight AV, with PR second chamber and STV in local government as a very good advance in the real world; and think there is a coherent case).

Today, in an article for the Institute for Public Policy Research, Richard Reeves, the director of think tank Demos, claimed that «Cameronism is certainly not an ideology, nor even - yet - a coherent political philosophy».

But the prime minister said: «I think the most important thing is not fireworks but argument and giving a coherent reason as to why the union of England and Scotland is good for today's world and the future, and it is, it is tremendously beneficial.»

They have no concrete, coherent and well — thought out message for the people of Ghana going forward into 2016 polls.

«It seems coherent for us to think that in south - east Asia and Australia, humans had seafaring capabilities by 60,000 to 70,000 years ago,» says expedition member Florent Detroit of the National Museum for Natural History in Paris, France.

I think that is something that I'm excited about and could be part of a broader strategy for science and technology investment... The only thing I want to say is that I want to do a thorough review because some of these programs may not be moving in the right direction and I want to make sure that NASA spending is a little more coherent than it has been over the last several years.»

WFPBRunner — If you think this video series makes a coherent case for a link between rice consumption and cancer, not really sure what to tell you.

Also, I don't think you've presented any coherent evidence at all for your idea that raw foodism is important for optimal health.

Sorry if this is a little rambly, I'm a little sleep / rest deprived and have been having a difficult time formulating coherent thoughts into words, which is, I'm sure, a pleasure for my coworkers.

No film in 2013 made me feel more than «Upstream Color,» and an early morning festival screening meant walking around in a haze for hours after, not quite sure what I'd just seen (though I think it's more narratively coherent than many give it credit for, especially after a rewatch), and almost wanting to shake it, but also not willing to trade the experience for anything.

The production team put the necessary elements for those scenes and creatures together, and nobody thought to give those scenes and the elements of the world a coherent through line.

Fire Emblem Warriors has more in common with Cookie Clicker than a real video game, as you mindlessly jab the same two attack buttons for hours on end, until everyone is beaten and your ability to form coherent thoughts has been bludgeoned to death alongside them.

They succeed, I think, at giving a rounded, nuanced and coherent picture of a very complex system, one that merits serious study by anyone who is responsible for turning a good education system into a great one or who is advising such a person.

They developed a coherent system of professional learning in the district, creating a culture of collaboration and thought partnership and ensuring better support for school leaders.

Yet they also recognize that eclectic, patchwork approaches will not provide youngsters» (and their teachers) with a coherent, shared experience of literacy as a cultural tool for thought and communication.

The Common Core's call for coherent, content - based math and literacy standards threatens to undo the watered - down version of progressive education thinking that has dominated the public schools over the past half - century.

Collecting this information about your area of study is not a difficult task at all, yet laying this information in a coherent and comprehensible pattern, in a sophisticated manner, elaborating upon it, writing it so that it expresses the arch of your thought process, is a difficult task for many students.

He looks for talent and promise, of course, but also for artists whom he thinks will work well together and produce a cohesive and coherent group show.

The White House has created a well thought out road map, a coherent vision for a low carbon future; download it here before it disappears on January 21st.

So we might think of the result of this study as analogous to an instant Delphi test for the participants: They can more easily sniff out the «sense of the committee» on the topic of climate change than they can give a coherent opinion and rationale of their own.

Space cadets are known for their poor skills in common sense areas such as coordination, food preparation, basic cleaning and processing simultaneous coherent thoughts.»

It's a coherent and interesting program, and one that I think offers much to like, such as an emphasis on energy access for the poor of the world.

United Kingdom About Blog FAB Parents offers a coherent framework for thinking for those parenting and managing adopted and fostered children who have experienced maltreatment and neglect in their early life.

For example, the Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children (SWLS - C; Gadermann et al. 2010, 2011) has shown high internal consistency and theoretically coherent convergent and discriminant validity patterns, and think - aloud protocols with children showed that children's responses to the SWLS - C items are consistent with theoretical frameworks on satisfaction with liFor example, the Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children (SWLS - C; Gadermann et al. 2010, 2011) has shown high internal consistency and theoretically coherent convergent and discriminant validity patterns, and think - aloud protocols with children showed that children's responses to the SWLS - C items are consistent with theoretical frameworks on satisfaction with lifor Children (SWLS - C; Gadermann et al. 2010, 2011) has shown high internal consistency and theoretically coherent convergent and discriminant validity patterns, and think - aloud protocols with children showed that children's responses to the SWLS - C items are consistent with theoretical frameworks on satisfaction with life.

These various contradictory and un-integrated behaviours are thought to indicate the infant's inability to organize a coherent strategy for eliciting comfort from the caregiver and are differentially associated with increased release of stress hormones.1, 2 Disorganized attachment behaviours may occur in combination with other insecure behaviours that are part of an avoidant or ambivalent attachment strategy.

I never thought I'd hear something so coherent from someone sometimes thought of as a «Hollywood Ditz», but this interview is a very interesting and thought provoking lesson for young entrepreneurs:...