"Intellectual laziness" refers to a behavior or attitude of avoiding mental effort or thinking critically about things. It means not being willing to actively engage in learning, analyzing, or seeking information, and instead relying on assumptions or accepting things at face value without questioning or exploring them further.
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What I mean
by intellectual laziness is that you never ask how god did something, or why, or even what could we predict based upon this information.
Is it merely your personal opinion, or are you expecting everyone to recognize this kind of
intellectual laziness as morally wrong?
The TL: DR version here is that, for most decisions truly crucial to company / investment success, the application of pattern recognition is a red herring; and often it is derived
from intellectual laziness that takes root once someone has success.
«But let's see the vacuousness and
intellectual laziness in the twist they have given what President Buhari said, out of sheer malice and evil hearts.
Mr. Shore accuses me of
intellectual laziness, but laziness is not what kept me from exploring Judaism in depth.
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Intellectual laziness is not going to get you anywhere but spinning in circles endlessly.
Intellectual laziness is not going to get you anywhere but spinning in circles endlessly.
Christians, then, should make their arguments carefully, winsomely, graciously, and firmly, in the hope that «the law written on the heart» will overcome emotional prejudice,
intellectual laziness, and moral compromise.
Religion is the lynchpin of
intellectual laziness.
The intellectual laziness and arrogance of the political class in its purest form is exemplified by a recent David Brooks column.
It's a good thig you don't judge or stereotype, because that is the height of
intellectual laziness!
Thinking about this some more, perhaps this phenomenon speaks to
their intellectual laziness, their distrust of reason, and an anti-intellectual strain that parades itself almost proudly in the Pensees.
A lack of confidence in our own intellectual abilities may be part of it, but I think the far bigger problem is
intellectual laziness.
After a few thousand years, those plagued by
the intellectual laziness caused by religious dogma, the current religous communities, will be followed by enlightened genes.
The two biggest obstacles to winning elections are
intellectual laziness and physical laziness.
There is no excuse for this kind of
intellectual laziness.
Whether it's from a lack of knowledge, a confirmation bias, or
intellectual laziness, when one side of a debate has bothered to gather supportive facts and present a considered argument and the other just parrots old information or rehashes only what they want to hear, it makes me want to pull my eyes out (or my ears, if I have to listen to it).
Artists have fought to regain control over their own narrative and the contours of their careers; arts organizers have invested in unexpected cities, blocks and buildings; critics are called out for their allegiances, inconsistencies, and
intellectual laziness.
Condemning an entire historical movement can be a symptom of
intellectual laziness.
An intellectual laziness and a meanness of spirit I have noted before.
And if that research isn't done, it is
intellectual laziness, at best.
Of course you can use an outline if you really want to — I do — but it is important to shed the rigid thinking and
intellectual laziness that outline - as - preparation encourages.