Sentences with phrase «intuition rather»

Between the ages of 4 and 7, when their thinking is still dominated by intuition rather than logic, children first become interested in games characterized by rules, structure, and social interaction.

His pointillist style, which is guided by intuition rather than science, generates meaning with dabs of paint that cover the entire canvas according to an implied set of rules or codes.

Using intuition rather than calculation, she divides the diamonds horizontally, noting that the division isn't «mathematical but it is precise, allowing me to resolve relationships of color and shape in a way that is new to me.

Most important, however, these artists are non-strategic: they rely primarily on intuition rather than research or theory to move the work forward.

His Standing Nude, with her blackened eyes and geometric target breasts, is a bold painting, guided by the artist's feeling and intuition rather than accuracy of depiction.

«This innovative study applied rigorous research methodology to an area that has historically been characterized by a reliance on anecdotal accounts and intuition rather than evidence - based science,» Dr. O'Haire said.

«This innovative study applied rigorous research methodology to an area that has historically been characterized by a reliance on anecdotal accounts and intuition rather than evidence - based science,» O'Haire says.

Any student of public policy understands the danger of exacerbating the very situation you are attempting to solve by the act of policy making on the fly based on intuition rather than data.

It's the illogical logic of yielding to intuition rather than straightforward investigation.»

It's associated with meditation and intuition rather than organised worship, and its aim for the practitioner is to achieve -LSB-...]

So tap into your own intuition rather than following the latest trend.»

Operating by intuition rather than calculation, Tutu knew when it was safe to press an advantage.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

Perhaps this is finally a matter of intuition rather than of argument.

In light of the diversity among feminists, separatism is variously understood and occasionally carries the vagueness of an intuition rather than the precision of a definition.

[101] Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate [101] and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

Both eloquently defend the reasonableness of religious belief but rely heavily on paradoxical propositions that can best be described as intuitions rather than arguments.

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But to the extent to which they are intuitions, rather than conclusions reached based on careful reasoning, we ought to be wary of them.

In fact, as someone who emphasizes risk management to such a high degree, I think Marks would be able to appreciate some trend following strategies, which rely not on intuition, but rather on rules to determine when the odds are no longer favorable.

It helps make sound business decisions and develop a launch strategy based on market facts rather than intuition.

With age, he might have succumbed to the temptation to elucidate, to dispel the enigmas and clarify the inchoate intuitions, to produce a system rather than give free expression to his natural creative ferment, and that would have been a great pity.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

Such experience no longer regards purely particular things as do the senses, but rather through intuition finds the universal genus behind them all — indeed, experience is «the universal now stabilized within the soul,» according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics.

Nevertheless, in order to understand the genuine sources from which theology legitimizes its irreplaceable intuition, and in order to preserve the revelation - theological relevance of process - theological theory, we may contrast the main position of process theology by identifying the counter question: Can there be found any genuine place for a revealed theology within Whitehead's work so that theology does not have to be subordinated to general metaphysics but, rather, finds its connection to metaphysics in mutual influence?

He said that «no man knows the hour» of the Second Coming, so that should have been a clear message to all these «believers» who listened to Camping rather than their own intuition and the Bible.

Instead, we should engage in «edifying» discourse which seeks to help others «break free from outworn vocabularies and attitudes, rather than to provide «grounding» for the intuitions and customs of the present» (PMR 12).

However, they can recognize that the discoveries of science are themselves products of true scientific «intuition,» or rather «confrontation.»

My professors at Harvard found this intuition difficult to grasp or, rather, even at the edge of comprehension, profoundly resisted it.

Rather, the main point I want to make, which is to my mind following a Peircean line, is that intuitions are not explicitly cognitive in the sense of exemplifying prima facie rationality; yet they may and should contribute to explicitly cognitive levels of experience.

Thus, rather than raise objections, I shall consider briefly the tensions with respect to Bergson's metaphysics and epistemology I shall try to extend consideration of the senses in which intuitions are rational and may be inclusive of conceptual experience.

Bergson is cited several times in a sympathetic but nonessential fashion, in connection with such concepts as «intuition, «canalization,» and «spatialization,» all of which refer to the characteristics of thought and experience, rather than to evolution or to Bergson's wider evolutionary cosmology.

The consensus is»... in favour of the concept of a rightness in things...» (RM 65) He also denies that this intuition is «a form of words» rather it is a type of character.

Innovation should be based on facts rather than intuition.

Similar to the Australian Grand Prix, pre-calculated strategy rather than live intuition played a role in the general lack of reaction.

With insight and sensitivity, Dr. MacNamara guides parents to trust their intuition to provide the conditions for children to grow rather than offering tools for changing behavior.

From my twenty years of practice I have observed that most woman do not trust their intuition and spend too much time pushing it away rather than listening to it.

Manners aside, I'd rather my kid listens to his intuition than indulge random people we'll probably (hopefully) never see again.

But intuition — and my experience as a psychiatrist — tells me that recalling better times when a person is depressed will commonly exacerbate their problems rather than improve them.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

Still, much of his most convincing material is based on intuition and anecdote rather than overwhelming scientific evidence.

The Mayas» talent might therefore be the result of experience rather than intuition.

We can use facts rather than our intuition.»

Rather, it emerged from the imagination of novelist Allegra Goodman, whose recent book, Intuition, may scant the details of inks used in lab notebooks and the appropriateness of statistical measures but probes instead the far more complex and mysterious domain of the human mind and heart.

Because molecular manufacturing cuts across a number of fields — physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, software, and more — and because it uses a rather novel approach to building stuff, almost any scientist will find something in the proposal that violates one or more intuitions.

Start to use your intuition, rather than your «plan» around exercise.

Also, ask yourself if you are reacting to a phobia, rather than your intuition.

I would turn my fear into determination (and sometimes anger) and tell myself that if my intuition was wrong or my Spirit Guides weren't there for me, I wanted to know sooner rather than later.

In fact, intuition is sometimes even painted as the province of those who are not critical thinkers, and who choose to make decisions based on «hunches» rather than facts.

And then these high frequencies, which are rather magical, in a way, that are very stimulating and tap into our intuition, our beliefs, our creativity.