Sentences with phrase «of the intuition for»

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As the man attempted to lead her down an even darker block that she'd known to be dangerous, she decided to listen to her intuition this time, calling out for help to a nearby group of people before sprinting away from him and getting home safe.

Plenty of successful people in the world possess a natural intuition that keeps them on track and connected to their «reason for being.»

If you've never put much stock in the power of intuition, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise when you start to pay attention.

Access to those we trust for good ideas and insight might make us less trustworthy of our own intuition.

Our reasoning here applies what's known as the principle of restricted choice, which comes up in the card game bridge, and is the intuition behind the formal mathematical procedure for updating beliefs based on new information, Bayesian inference.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

That key intuition comes from Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, of Harvard University, who've been studying the matter for years trying to bring some method to the madness of accounting for the budgetary and broader economic costs of war (which remains, by their own admission, a bit of an educated guess).

My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers.

The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to happiness for the giver than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.

Arguably no other entrepreneur has a better understanding of the retail climate, nor a better intuition for where it's headed.

«This is the book for those of us looking for hard data to support our intuition.

That means that I have no background or knowledge of finance and use logic and intuition as a basis for making decisions as oppose to education and experience.

Allison attributes much of her success to what she calls «soul intuition», which she uses to understand how to proceed forward on the path specifically for her.

The study of Epistemology reveals that all sources of knowledge are flawed — authority, the 5 senses, memory, intuition, and logic (a counter argument for every argument).

Logic, without the assistence of intuition, that «gut feeling» that makes us search for deeper answers, always leads to reductionistic thinking.

The claim is not saved in this way, for the claim to have such an intuition is not the alleged intuition itself, and only that claim is what in fact and in principle enters the realm of philosophical theory and argument.

In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form of the claim that each of us has a «non-sensuous experience of the self» which is «both prior to our interpretation of our sense - knowledge and more important as source for the more fundamental questions of the meaning of our human experience as human selves» (BRO 75).

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

Traditional interpreters seek a way of accounting for Whitehead's final intuition as expressed in his account of the fourth phase with minimal adjustments of the systematic position at which he had arrived.

Therefore, for an impression to ascend to the level of Aristotelian intuition or Newman's assent, it must be true as situated within the entire sphere of truth, not appealing to us only through its brilliance.

It is a consciousness of consciousness, a taking by the subject of its own past, now become objectified for present intuition.

Man himself will choose his own acts for human motives at the level of reason or intuition.

Insight comes, intuition comes, understanding comes, and, for me, it usually seems to require going through that time of intense prayer and arriving at the realization that I do not know what to say, or do and it is okay.

Drawing on experience described in the philosophy of Berkeley and Bacon, concretized in literature, especially the Romantic poets, and abstracted in the formalized viewpoints of science, especially quantum physics, relativity and evolution, Whitehead gives the experiential base for his intuition into the character of the universe.

Instead, it is a momentary glimpse of the sheer givenness of the world and the subsequent intuition that the world can not account for itself.

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?

This intuition is expressed in the Letter of Paul to the Romans:»... the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Although one can expect, to a certain extent, such an influence by revealed theology on the developments of metaphysics, especially in the context of Whitehead's theory of «religious intuition,» Whitehead appreciates the Alexandrian theology not for its specific content and «highly special form» (AI 167), but to the extent that it suggests «the solution of a fundamental metaphysical problem» (AI 167).

Moreover, the unique events relevant to theology, the genuine intuition of religious experience, and revelation - theological reflection can not reach into the metaphysical core anymore and at all.2 David Pailin appropriately summarizes this process - theological confession for the dissolution of revealed theology into general metaphysics in saying:

It is important to realize that, in Whitehead's thought, «religious intuition» has irreplaceable meaning for any general «theory of the world.»

The experiential dimension does not involve immediate intuition of a personal God even though God is directly present within human experience.21 For if religious experience consists exclusively in such an immediate encounter, then there is no broad foundation of agreement to which one could appeal.

The philosophical «God» is understood, if not independently of religious intuition, then definitely beyond its singular appearance (RM 88) 43 Over against the philosophical approach, Christianity developed the double strategy which we have analyzed as «religious intuition» contributing finally to the formation of revelational theology:» (1) Christianity proceeded not from any metaphysics, but it «has always been a religion seeking a metaphysics» (RM 50).45 Christianity strove for theological rationalization, 46 (2) Christianity, however, did not follow any certain metaphysics (PR 66 - 68), but «has been true to its genius for keeping its metaphysics subordinate to the religious fact to which it appeals» (RM 69).

Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have believed evil things in the name of natural law.

Thus, J. R. Lucas points out that such a criterion for time involves not only technical tense - logical difficulties, 7 but also involves a denial of the basic intuition that time is a concomitant of consciousness — we are aware of time even in the most tranquil of environments (TTS 13).

Less familiar are two further aspects developed in his systematic theology: his understanding of the intuition of the infinite and his view of religion as the struggle for truth.

For Bergson introspection of our own mental lives, what Bergson calls «intuition», 2 reveals the continuous flow as it manifests itself in reality.

In Whitehead's more technical terminology, it is an experience of the consequent nature of God or the Unity of Adventure which forms the basis for the intuition of peace.

This catholicity of the cross is made concrete for von Balthasar in the way that Jesus» death fulfills the deepest intuitions of the world's religions.

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).

For Santayana intent is a kind of felt turning to the world and readiness to take intuited essences as describing it intent and intuition are thus aspects of every sort of perception (and thought), not two types of perception.

As part of this search, the desire for rational consistency is not in conflict with the desire for empirical adequacy, because it is nothing other than the desire to find a way to coordinate all of our well - grounded intuitions.

For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensatioFor Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensatiofor these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensatiofor making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensations.

The challenge is to ground the intuition of a character of permanent rightness in the general categories one uses for an understanding of reality, i.e., so to relate the intuition to the structures of the real that its integration into those structures validates the intuition while giving it specific content.

So far as moments of spirit go, each is just there in its own position in the universe enjoying its own intuition and intent, and its pastness is something which it only has for other moments of spirit just as it has futurity for others.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

«Intent» in this sense is sometimes called «animal faith» (though sometimes he uses this expression to refer to those beliefs, arising from a mixture of intuition and intent, which an agent practically engaged with the world around him can not honestly deny that he holds for true).

Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.

As useful though knowledge of past reflection can be for acting in the concreteness of the situation, ultimately we must trust our own spontaneous intuition.

The advocates of situation ethics believe that useful though knowledge of past reflection can be for acting in the concreteness of the situation, ultimately we must trust our own spontaneous intuition.

«Only out of the conjunction of these two, primordial mythic intuition and directly experienced reality, does the light of the legitimate concept arise for this sphere too, probably the most obscure of all.»