Sentences with phrase «instinctive grasp»

Lay people do seem to have an instinctive grasp of the idea that longer term trends carry more information, and so «misleadingness» needs to be evaluated against this.

A local contractor, Craig Morgan, who had been lined up to work on the house from the start, had no passive house experience but did have an instinctive grasp of the basic principles.

In the picture's instinctive grasp of Ken's quandary, I sense the Schraders; in Harry's heavy - handed agonism, I detect Towne.

This instinctive grasping reflex response lasts for about the first eight weeks of life.

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At the moment of birth, newborns have an instinctive fear of falling that can be seen in the Moro reflex — large grasping gestures in response to a lack of support underneath the body — which is primitive evidence of a burgeoning fear system designed for survival.

Kacelnik doubts whether it would be possible to engender abstract thought in older ducklings and ducks, given that the motivation to grasp the information is instinctive after hatching.