Sentences with phrase «mode of thinking for»

The current mode of thinking for many manufacturers can probably best described be as «add more bass.»

Not exact matches

Thanks to an ambitious think - tank upstart, the bold billionaire's vision for a Jetson-esque «fifth mode of transport» is inching closer to reality.

But, if I could slip into inner indignant old fogey mode for a moment, do we really want to encourage a generation of kids into thinking they can sing, when they really can't?

It's healthy and invigorating for individuals, allows for creativity and stimulates new modes of thinking.

Speaking to Kitco news on Friday, Ken Hoffman, sector head of global metal and mining for Bloomberg Intelligence said that, «China is in decrease mode [and] we actually think their copper demand, for the first time in 30 years, will actually decline by 2 - 4 %.»

This will require a new mode of thinking, especially for those organizations with systems and processes set in stone.

The arguments are that while Mondays people «dread» the thought of being back to work for the week, Tuesdays is when «work mode» is in full swing.

Then jerk yourself into thought mode and reflect on the fact or figures that you suspect contain a germ of an idea for you.

The AAC monograph, for instance, identifies nine «methods and processes, modes of access to understanding and judgment» (ICC 15) that it thinks are essential to know: logical analysis, verbal literacy, numerical understanding, historical awareness, scientific method, informed and responsible moral choice, art appreciation and experience, international and multicultural experiences, and study of one field in depth.

Would that point to a mode of thinking which does not (for example) take feminist notions and human fatherly failures (or seeming successes) and press them back into the doctrine of God?

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

If, however, we examine the condemnations with an eye to the pattern of two Modernisms and two Thomisms, much comes clear — for Pius X had gone back into the mode of making lists of errors, but he focused his attention not on social modernity but on the doctrinal and metaphysical aspects of modern thought.

Since the theme of this symposium is the meaning of process thought for us, my paper will discuss the use that I have made of this mode of thinking to articulate and develop my views, especially in the philosophy of religion.

I thus conclude, within the oversimplification which is excusable for this kind of capsule argument, that apologetics or evangelism should not be thought of as constituting a distinctive mode of theological discourse for which we would need a specific definition of the place of the Bible.

Whitehead thinks of perception in the mode of presentational immediacy as the presentation of clear, obvious sensory data, such as vision most strikingly affords, and which are the basis for the Humean notion of impressions.

No modem theologian can continue to assume that European and North American modes of Christian thought and practice can, even in principle, any longer suffice for an emerging world church.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

It certainly contradicts the mode of thought to which we are accustomed — first a permanent subject, then an experience for it.

The basic modes of thought and existence that even today compete for our attention and loyalty, he argues, arose in that period.

May I be forgiven for thinking that mode of modern European existence has been well assimilated by the arrested terrorists?

If we follow the patterns of thought set forth in the Bible, it must be seen as a presence in the mode of promise and not an exhaustive presence that leaves no room for further manifestations of an incalculable future.

Christian proponents continue to deepen their treatments of the entire spectrum of doctrine, and the variation in their views, for example on Christology, reveals both the inherent openness of Whiteheadian categories to manifold Christian sensibilities and the diversity of the theological movement which utilizes these modes of thought.

In other words, part of Whitehead's cure for the ills of modern philosophy involves the repudiation of aspects of the substance - quality mode of thought that are not immediate premises of the subjectivist principle and are not necessarily connected with the problem of repeatability and unrepeatability.

It is merely the occasion for the discovery of the difficulties inherent in the substance - quality mode of thought of which the subjectivist principle is but one expression.

Part of Whitehead's cure for the ills of modern philosophy involves the repudiation of aspects of the substance - quality mode of thought that are not immediate premises of the subjectivist principle and are not necessarily connected with the problem of repeatability and unrepeatability.

Whitehead's refusal to accept imperial ruler as a metaphor for God found expression in Modes of Thought as well.

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead praised William James for the character of his intellectual life, which was «one protest against the dismissal of experience in the interest of system» (MT 4).

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

Of course, postmodernists have a standard answer for this kind of questioning, namely, that those of us who think and talk this way are imprisoned in premodern categories, and enslaved to the linear mode of reasoninOf course, postmodernists have a standard answer for this kind of questioning, namely, that those of us who think and talk this way are imprisoned in premodern categories, and enslaved to the linear mode of reasoninof questioning, namely, that those of us who think and talk this way are imprisoned in premodern categories, and enslaved to the linear mode of reasoninof us who think and talk this way are imprisoned in premodern categories, and enslaved to the linear mode of reasoninof reasoning.

The greatness of Freud, says Bakan, lay not simply in his astounding facility for maximizing distance with respect to modes of thought in which minimal distance prevailed initially — things like dreams, slips of speech, or jokes.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

But in the end we must try to think together in the mode of a public theology: that is, a form of discourse which uses symbols of ultimacy but also seeks publicly negotiable warrants for its assertions.

For it must be in intuitions that two contrary modes of knowing are merged — that is, an immediate focus that «enters into» what is apprehended and at the same time enacts a process that includes some aspect of spatializing thought, distinguishing and somehow distancing.

From the beginning, Christians have been called upon to give an account of their faith in terms of contemporary modes of thought (for example, 1 Peter 3:15).

«A pastoral mode of education is greatly needed on the local church level where people can think through, pray through and make preparations well in advance of their own deaths for organ donation.»

For a believer thinking in a process - relational mode, Christ is both act of God and emergent from the evolutionary process.

Further, this mode of religious thought sees each moment of history as creative of new problems, new solutions, new theories, and even of new realities — for the new solutions enter the stream of events.

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

It may even be that he in fact adopted something very like it, for in Modes of Thought he identified God with the whole in a way that is highly congenial to this doctrine.

... To speak of revelation now is not to retreat to modes of thought established in earlier generations but to endeavor to deal faithfully with the problem set for Christians in our time by the knowledge of our historical relativity.»

And not the least claim that can he made for the Hegelian method or mode of thinking is that it is truly and fully a cognitive expression of the eschatologica1 and Christological ground of the Christian faith.

Mack B. Stokes, in an article entitled «The Non-theistic Temper of the Modern Mind,» argues that the most effective countermeasure for a world of unbelief «can best succeed with the aid of personalistic modes of thought which are informed and enriched by some of the insights of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

It is, on the other hand, the cornerstone of the systematic approach; for this last approach holds that any in - depth interpretation of Process and Reality must be conducted under the illumination provided, at the very least, by correlative in - depth interpretations of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, and Modes of Thought.

The separation of the two pure modes would then allow for focusing upon the actuality of this experience in the pure mode of causal efficacy rather than on the projected referents as we do in the normal thought processes of symbolic reference.

For example, I think that there are serious problems with the notion of a pure «contemplative» or «receptive» mode of knowing.

But even this formulation suggests that there is a purely receptive mode of consciousness, a mode which Hall certainly thinks should be given greater importance even if it is not entirely «substituted» for the «active mode.

This is evident in Adventures of Ideas, such as in the passage on «Creativity» quoted at length above, or in its reference to the dart of Lucretius.14 It is also evident in Modes of Thought, for example, its statement about «the whole antecedent world conspiring to produce a new occasion» (164).