Sentences with phrase «on modes of thought»

Schilpp makes his case, in the main, by examining the notion of «importance» within the context of Whitehead's moral thought, and by basing his observations almost exclusively on Modes of Thought.

It leaves a mark on our mode of thinking — we become silo thinkers when people say «my department» or «my unit» thereby identifying themselves with small parts of a business solution rather than with its entire mission.

Academics who move into industry, whether before or after working on their postdoctoral projects, face a particularly substantive issue that has strong impact on their mode of thinking.

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«I know that it's becoming cliché,» concedes Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures (which organizes the Summit), «but I actually think virtual reality is going to have an even more profound impact on society, how we organize ourselves, how we communicate, even modes of transportation.

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 %.»

I think this is based on the classic concept of customer servicing only the platform and mode has changed..

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

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

While introducing his project of comparing Whitehead and Heidegger on time, Mason suggests that the paucity of previous efforts is «a function of the assumption that their modes of philosophizing are so different as to render the thought of the one completely irrelevant to that of the other» (p. 83).

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 a second mode of revolutionary thinking also found a foundational presence in Whitehead's «exercise» in «imaginative thought,» 2 namely, the emphasis on relations as internal to and constitutive of all that becomes and is, including the very reality of God.

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.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

The two natural modes of human thought, according to Bruner, are paradigmatic thought (logico - scientific thinking that rests on description, explanation and verification) and narrative thought that weaves together action and consciousness (NPM) 3 Consciousness is the thinking, feeling and willing of the human person.

It would appear from the reactions of these two highly competent philosophers that Whitehead's attempt to return to a pre-Kantian, even pre-Cartesian, mode of thought was obviously not compatible with Husserl's desire to develop a fully consistent transcendental philosophy on the basis of Descartes and Kant.

From the perspective of process modes of thought, there is but one fundamental datum on which religious experience is based: the generic contrast between the individual and the community, or, more metaphysically, the one and the many.

To underpin this realistic interpretation, one may refer to Whitehead's magnum opus, Process and Reality, where, on several occasions, he explicitly objects to a Kantian epistemology, presenting his philosophy of organism as a return to a pre-Kantian mode of thought.22

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.

Morgenthau: «The great overriding issue that we must face in our government and that other governments must face as well lies in the discrepancy between our conventional modes of thought and action on the one hand and the unprecedented novelty of the objective conditions under which we live.

There is an ever - growing body of research on the two hemispheres of the brain and their fulfilling of different functions — functions which correspond to the intuitive (integrative) and discursive (analytic) modes of thought.

It is because there is a legitimate thought of the unconditioned that the transcendental illusion is possible; this latter does not proceed from the projection of the human into the divine but, on the contrary, from the filling - in of the thought of the unconditioned according to the mode of the empirical object.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

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.

The conflict between the two modes of thought and the two perspectives on the speaker - hearer relationship has often appeared as a conflict between a minister (deductive, authoritarian) and his educational director (inductive, democratic), between sermons and adult education.

«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.»

Nothing is further from the spirit of the sages than the idea of an autonomy of thinking, a humanism of the good life; in short, of a wisdom in the Stoic or Epicurean mode founded on the self - sufficiency of thought.

In Modes of Thought, on the other hand, Whitehead gives a far stronger conception of power: «power is the compulsion of composition» (119).

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.

Rather than such «disjunctive» thinking, which itself implies the «dominance of one mode, he envisions a new sensibility... based on the balancing of the active and receptive» (UP 373).

It must be said that many texts on creativity in Modes of Thought can be read also as stressing mainly the creativity of the concrescing occasion itself.

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).

I think in some way it inspired my last blog post... (cuz i was being kinda raw) well, i stay pretty raw when i'm in write mode... but of course i get invited to «follow» someone on blog, turns out, he's a bit legalistic to say the least... people get real clinging to their «form of God» when you challenge with the raw i guess.

When I look on God as y, I can only specify the similarity between God and y attitudinally; I believe and hope that God is such that the attitude which is appropriate towards him is similar to the attitude which is appropriate towards y... The expression of an onlook commits me to a way of behaving and thinking, a mode of life.

But at a very profound level, Christian theology has served to reinforce and deepen patriarchal modes of thought, even when it alleviated certain social injustices inflicted on women.

The role of symbols and symbolic modes of thinking is intrinsic to Christian discourse as well, but it takes on a different function.

On the other hand, people who are the products of a prevailingly analytical, logical habit of mind - possessors of modern Greek - Western modes of thinking, rather than the ancient Hebraic - Eastern quality of thought - instinctively and habitually find themselves delayed, snagged, or otherwise discontented or dismayed by any absence in the text of specific agreement in detail, by any appearance of the inconsistent, whether overt or only implied.

I have found that there is nothing more destructive than being absolutely sure of what I am doing, that I don't think twice about it and run on «automatic» mode.

Theology differs from such modes of thinking about God and man because it is a pure science, disinterested as all pure science is disinterested, seeking to put aside all extraneous, private and personal interests while it concentrates on its objects for their own sake only.

But bettors who think the Niners might win this game by considerably more than that spread can play San Fran at -7.5 points getting +170 on their money; at -10.5 points getting +250; at -13.5 getting +325; at -14.5 getting +375; at -17.5 getting +550; and in serious blow - out mode the 49ers could be played at -20.5 points getting a price of +650.

Third, we must rapidly come to terms with the corrosive effect this reductionist mode of thinking continues to have on political debate in Europe.

Everyone's been in Kentucky Boneless Chicken mode since I soft - polled a bunch of target voters on recognition issues and just over 70 % of them thought Ed Balls was EWAN MCGREGOR»S DAD.

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

«Traditional public transit can satisfy only a small percentage of the trips people need to take, so we need to think of a combination of services and modes that provide an attractive alternative to relying on your own car for all your trips.»

Based on anatomical sites with muted slow - wave activity, the researchers suspect the first - night effect involves the default - mode network, a system of interacting brain regions involved in daydreaming and spontaneous thoughts.

A close look at his visual mode of thinking, particularly in his studies of the crossbow, reveals that his ideas had a bearing on the evolution of four aspects of mechanics

Perhaps you are still in Olympic mode and you think of the amazing women's gymnastics team balancing on the balance beam.

I suspect what people think of as «starvation mode» on very low calorie diets is actually malnutrition that shuts down metabolism.

I made a reference to this earlier, «politics,» which includes your mode of thinking, has it's place in a FOX News forum or something of that ilk, more so than on a blog about sugar babies.

Despite the amount of complaints on the table, I still think World Poker Tour should be given a chance if you plan to take it online, because as far as I know, this is the only poker videogame that offers such an extensive online mode.