Sentences with phrase «mental construct»

Your god is a fallacy, your soul a non-existent mental construct, and your impending death, permanent.

Hence, our perceptions of the directions of moving objects are mental constructs based on past experience.

Mean reversion is a very powerful and useful mental construct for investors, but they must not apply it automatically to two types of business fundamentals — the great businesses and the crappy ones.

To say that «Socrates does not exist» is to imply that Socrates has been replaced, not by absolute nonbeing or a mere mental construct of Socrates, but by other human or subhuman organisms.

The Church's dogmas are seen as mental constructs that allow the clergy to preserve and increase their power.

The «DCF frame of mind» is a very useful mental construct.

At the heart of the treatment is the client's unmet emotional needs from childhood and the maladaptive cognitive and emotional schemas or mental constructs related to these unmet needs.

The elementary particles of physics (insofar as they are concrete and not mental constructs) are «fields of energy,» «happenings,» or «energy events».

I will deal especially with theoretical models in science, which are mental constructs devised to account for observed phenomena in the natural world.

Nice that you're comfortable with your unverifiable mental construct.

But in Einstein's empty mental construct, without landmarks to help gauge how fast you move, pulling alongside the light beam would be tantamount to measuring the light's speed to be 0 mph, in direct conflict with Maxwell's laws.

Students need to be explicitly taught and given opportunities to practice using executive functions to organize, prioritize, compare, contrast, connect to prior knowledge, give new examples of a concept, participate in open - ended discussions, synthesize new learning into concise summaries, and symbolize new learning into new mental constructs, such as through the arts or writing across the curriculum.

That was a very significant mental construct.»

«The way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work is that problems frequently get easier, I'd even say usually are easier to solve, if you turn them around in reverse.

Prototypes are mental constructs of categories that people use to describe different characteristics and qualities of any given group (Smith & Zárate, 1992); thus enabling individuals to compare and contrast qualities of ingroups and outgroups (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987).

People are trapped in this mental construct that more doing is what's needed.

God is a mental construct, that people put in place for themselves to give themslves comfort and security.

The highly abstract mathematical formalism should be treated as a mental construct for making predictions.

A theory is not given to us ready - made by the data, or by inferences from the data; it is a mental construct, a human invention.

A denial in the subject means that one has a «mental construct» which has no counterpart in the outer world; one has an idea of Socrates but fails to be able to match it with anything «outside.»

Reese admits that he is assuming that all references are at least to mental constructs.

However, he says, non-being refers to no mental construct at all.

Both are instances of Platonic «othering»; in the case of predicate denials the othering takes place between a term and its complement; in the case of denial in the subject the othering takes place between the world and a mental construct.

Also, biology itself isn't based upon distinct Platonic types despite our mental constructs for modeling it.

A name provides the conceptual framework and the mental constructs that are used in thinking, understanding and relating to a person.

there is no such think (not «thing», think like a mental construct) as suffering.

nevertheless, m, even if it is a mental construct, there is still human suffering.

Then, when they begin to realize that even this gracious God is a mental construct, a kind of ideological idol, they feel the pain of having to let this God go too.

So the assumption you have is «even this gracious God is a mental construct» and with grace and love letting go and «our imagination sets us free from itself to experience reality itself.»

So you presuppose God to be a mental construct and letting go of this frees us to experience reality.

It is the tendency to take our mental constructs and imaginative models of the world, such as those of the machine, wave or particle, as though they corresponded exactly to the world itself.

Two studies involving 81 university athletes found that athletes who completed the program showed significant increases in various dimensions of mindfulness and flow, which is the mental construct often associated with being «in the zone.»

Imagine you are now a lonely astronaut floating through the empty void of Einstein's mental construct.

«Imagine a large portion of empty space, so far removed from stars and other appreciable masses,» said Einstein, describing his mental construct.

Since all objects fall at the same rate, and there were no other cues in Einstein's mental construct, the workman would feel like he was floating in empty space.

We mistake cravings (mental constructs) for actual hunger.

I agree with barbf that conscious belief, or a belief we are aware of wanting to be true, is a mental construct.

«A nation is a mental construct.

The composition of a map, with its scale, key, centre and periphery, axes, vanishing lines and blank spaces, is the result of a palimpsest of images, references, and concepts ensuing from geographic, historic, social and mental constructs.

Constructs / Constructions is a group exhibition that brings together 30 artists across - generations, addressing the process that moves a creative work from the realm of a mental construct into the realm of a constructed image or reality, to communicate through its form and content.

Species come and go, and the «systems,» «progressions,» and «equilibria» are mental constructs.