Sentences with phrase «structure human thought»

Structuralism claimed that the binary oppositions that structure human thought are essentially universal and unaffected by culture or history.

Not exact matches

Just think of the emotional difference when a customer reads a well - written, well - structured, heartfelt response versus one that lacks any human element.

Nevertheless, I think we can be cautiously optimistic that universal structures in the physical, biological and social worlds would be enough to anchor human and alien languages in a common semantic framework.

The hippy movement lasted for a season, and I think your concept of community will implode due to the fact that human nature is to have a sense of functional structure.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

These are the understanding of human beings and of nature that are now built into the whole structure of the dominant economic thinking.

Aristotelian logic and Platonic dualism do not exhaust the thought - structures of the human race.

The opposition of the divine and human terms and the orientations they represent structures Paul's thoughts about his apostleship, his motives, and his message.24

The two processes are inevitably linked in their structure, the second requiring the first as the matter upon which it descends in order to super-animate mt.. This view entirely respects the progressive effective concentration of human thought in an increasingly acute consciousness of its unitary destiny.

He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization.

The question of whether such structures exist and what they are is always an empirical question, but whatever they may be, in their transcendence of what man shares with the animal they may be thought of as part of human nature.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

Yet no thought is possible without concepts, and human life requires intelligible structure.

The deeper question, however, is whether that totality can ever be comprehended in its essential structure by a single human thought - system.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.

Men will come to see, as they are now beginning to see with the critical examination of language, that every conceivable structure of meaning carried by language is necessarily based on the selections of data and the forms of thought derived from the ruling interests of human life....

Can you think of anything else in human history that has caused so much unnecessary human suffering as unjust economic structures?

Newbigin's contention, with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that «a standpoint outside the real human situation of knowing subjects» is not available to us, and consequently Christianity is always received and transmitted within existing particular structures of life and thought, as is also the case with the tradition of scientific rationality.

In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.

It will not only «continually be pushing students to examine the ultimate presuppositions with which they think» but will also keep a close relationship «between the formal structure of thought and concrete human problems» and between the subject matter and students» vocational commitments.

It will then be seen that scientific axioms are themselves a function of the structures of human thought.

By its stress on event and on patterning and integration, by its insistence that relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an awareness of the depths of human experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement with the newer scientific emphasis on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.

If we are to think of the soul as the form of a human being and the body as the matter, chemical and physical structure belong to the body, not the soul.

In a structure of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition of «human intelligence» to «divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....

As a human being it is sewed into our DNA structure to make mistakes it's just part of who we are you should not worry yourself about the thoughts of other and the judgment they may cast upon you.

Cognitive psychologists coined the term in 1960 as they tried to explain the fundamental structure of the human thought process.

Hidden in the tangled, repetitious folds of DNA structures called centromeres, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute have discovered the hiding place of 20 million base pairs of genetic sequence, finding a home for 10 percent of the DNA that is thought to be missing from the standard reference map of the human genome.

Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.

Also scientists think that due to change in the environment structure, the human race too will be changed.

«Rather than emulating the biological structure of the brain, fuzzy logic emulates the thought process of a human,» says Nick Ernest, CEO of Psibernetix.

The researchers have so far found no remains of early humans, stone tools or other signs of occupation, but they think that Neanderthals made the structures, because no other hominins are known in western Europe at that time.

Additional comments made by the author himself indicate virtually no knowledge of the structure of medieval European society, or of the relationship between sacred and secular learning, and include a condemnation which even readers who are not anxious to return to the Middle Ages may regard as rather extreme: «the suppression of scientific thought by the medieval Church represents one of the blackest periods of human history».

When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes food storage structures dating back 11,000 years, a millennium before humans were thought to have domesticated crops.

As Pol III has the same structure and function across species, we think its role in mammals, and humans, warrants investigation as it may lead to important therapies.»

When we practice mindfulness meditation however we grow the actual physical structures in the human brain associated with sense of being peaceful and eliminating unhappy, angry, anxious and stressful thinking.

Essentially, big agra has hybridized wheat heavily over the last 5 decades to improve things such as crop yield and baking characteristics, but never once thought about the impacts on human health of changing the biochemical structure of wheat.

According to the automaker, the human - centric way of thinking influences the package design, «where the position of the passengers, engine, and tires determines the shape of the car's structure.»

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

All birds have one on each wing, and they can be thought of as the bird's thumbs, homologous to the thumb structures of humans.

The game is full of thought provoking puzzles and a narrative structure that requires you to think, while also highlighting the negative side of the human society.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

[4] Inspired by the concept / model of Joseph Beuys social sculpture, that have the potential to transform society, ART / MEDIA was an extended artwork that included human interactions, creating structures and systems within society using language, thought, objects, events and actions.

Responding to a new field of critical thought, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening uses the group exhibition format to explore the strangeness of plants and algae, and how they trouble human structures.

Working with composers and film / theatre crews, Ayoung Kim utilises storytelling and narrative structures to evoke alternative forms of reading, listening and thinking about our present human condition.

But you'd be forgiven for thinking she might have once gone under the knife from the visceral, personal way she picks apart the human body with medical - mechanical metal structures in her latest show, «Scruff of the Neck».

«Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives,» he once mused.

Naess expressed it this way: «The supporters of shallow ecology think that reforming human relations toward nature can be done within the existing structure of society.»

You might not think it to look at them, but prairie dogs and humans actually share an important commonality — and it's not just their complex social structures, or their habit of standing up on two feet (aww, like people).