Sentences with phrase «preconceptions in»

Reflecting on a work of art can open up conceptual meaning, but if we can suspend our preconceptions in the actual encounter, we can enter a state of contemplation, rather than reflection, in which we experience the nature of what is actually there — its ineffability, its inability to be pinned down, or somehow defined or even known.

Working with the Female Artists» Foundation, these four African women artists explore societal challenges and preconceptions in their works.

But there are no such preconceptions in China, where the prime minister is embarking on a three - day trade mission accompanied by her other half.

Wilson gives full play to his prejudices and preconceptions in a way that he would find preposterous if indulged in by a scientific colleague writing about science.

But I don't think that her (possible) dismissal requires agreement — she had preconceptions in her writing herself.

Gabriele Schwab, in her analysis of this hermeneutical event in the bush, acknowledges that the elders «recreated their own cultural pattern within Shakespeare's plot» but concludes, «The Tiv people had to project their own cultural preconceptions in order to reduce the otherness that would have made Hamlet incomprehensible in their context.»

Not exact matches

«The negative, obviously, is that local people can more easily absorb preconceptions and feel pressured to vote a certain way — in other words, the danger of local democratic empowerment is a loss of impartiality.»

She or he can assist you in seeing your very best self, preconceptions be damned.

Much of the fight for inclusive hiring has focused on battling preconceptions that prevent interesting candidates from getting in the door.

All of the above misinterpretations of the market are constructed in order to minimize the gap between the entrepreneur's preconceptions about his startup and its relation with the marketplace, and his understanding of reality based on information he collected and analyzed for the purpose of reducing the mental dissonance in the mind.

Confirmation bias is defined as the tendency to search for and interpret information in a way that confirms one's own existing preconceptions, beliefs and opinions.

But there's increasing evidence that at least some of the pay differential between men and women in the workplace — and especially that between moms and dads — is the result of preconceptions about the traditional roles of the sexes.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

The sudden craze for such financially flimsy new - media stocks seemed to confirm everything Wired magazine had been proselytizing in its pages: that the digital revolution was fast upon us, sweeping away all rules and preconceptions before it.

You can't go in there with a preconception of guilty or not.

Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

Part F in The Insider's Economic Dictionary Factoid: A hypothesis, rumor or story so consonant with peoples» preconceptions that it is accepted as a fact or working assumption, even though it often is made up a priori.

THe israelites had already judged jesus to be a fraud, like the frauds before him, and the main body of Judaism moved on without him, but Paul saw the potential in converting people who had no preconceptions of what the messiah had to look like and they molded them like silly putty.

For instance as a lead guitarist and lead singer in several bar bands He put a successful guitarist in my life who I thought was a «Jesus Freak» and it challenged so many of my preconceptions.

How often do we let our preconceptions about what God ought to look like and what God ought to do keep us from getting involved in where God is actually moving?

When so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.

Your task is to find out, with as little preconception as possible, how your informants describe what is going on in life, where it seems to be headed, and why.

In all these disciplines the founders» methodological preconceptions have generally been maintained or fortified.

Given the remoteness and «abnormality» of this world, the expectations and preconceptions of the reader undoubtedly play an important role in how the story is perceived.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

So we are forced to deal with the impact and force of what is, rather than with a preconception of what ought to be, in describing religious music.

Practically, psychologists, statisticians, and the rest of the research teams must be involved in these research designs, but the hidden goals and preconceptions of both clergymen and psychologically trained professionals must be articulated before the designs are firmed up.

The whole history of Christian theology makes it clear that those who come to Christ with other preconceptions about God are able to understand their encounter with him apart from any implication that God is Person in the modern sense.

My preconceptions and stereotypes proceeded to fall like iron ducks in a shooting gallery.

This freedom is particularly evident in the modern arts, in which unrestrained experimentation with new forms, unshackled by preconceptions or traditional standards, is expected and encouraged.

We have to ask ourselves which of these is more probable, putting aside our preconceptions and keeping in mind what we know of human nature.

Authenticity in living that out comes when we're willing to address and maybe discard preconceptions of what the body looks like.

(3) Moreover, methodology is unable to operate neutrally because prejudices and preconceptions can not be bracketed in the preunderstanding, and in fact they determine the questions addressed to the text as well as the methodology employed for interpretation.

Imposing global preconceptions on the multitude of diverse personalities and motivations in a given group of children may be one of them.

I'm not sure this is a given, «since taxation is necessary unless you want anarchy...» And I don't think this is either, «what is the role of government in society to for the highest well - being of the greatest number» You have preconceptions even in your questions, but we all do.

It can be safely studied in the confidence that even among toppling preconceptions and misconceptions the benefits harvested for thoughtful discipleship will far exceed the sentimental value of the former reverential hesitation.

We should note in passing that «I tell you...» with its direct challenge to dearly held preconceptions of the period is an indirect personal claim of great magnitude.

The reason being that, in His life, whenever He was challenged by pharisees or others, He typically astounded everyone with a new teaching that demolished their preconceptions.

In addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptIn addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptin present language and concepts.

In this field William Graham Sumner's old dictum that «stateways can not change folkways» remained the basic preconception.

For many of the foundations and preconceptions and starting places of Christian life have been, and still are, protected and nourished in a vital Judaism.

A useful step in that direction would be to conduct our political dialogue concerning the peace dividend in conscious disregard of the paradigm's preconceptions.

Such a historian will recognize some of his own limitations as well as the limitations of his method and his materials, and he will try to maintain a scrupulous honesty in the face of data which do not correspond with his preconceptions.

As much as we try to eliminate bias in sports, it's inevitable that some officials will enter games with preconceptions and beliefs that can impact their decision making.

The Dane in saying this is ensuring his team don't enter the fixture with any preconceptions about the Arsenal side they are facing.

The common preconception has been that Coquelin is vital in big games, because of his defensive statistics, which aid Arsenal in transitioning from defence to attack quickly.

• A high quality case control study in Northern California found that exposure to paternal preconception smoking alone (as well as in combination with postnatal passive smoking) is highly likely to be important in the risk of childhood leukemia (Chang et al, 2006).

We discuss a fascinating theory about why preconception / prenatal health is so important, the best superfoods, supplements, and nutrients before and during pregnancy, the benefits of baby - led weaning versus pureed foods, the controversy regarding introducing allergenic foods early to avoid allergies later in life, and why self - care is so important for moms!

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