Sentences with phrase «thinking by analogy»

The idea is to avoid thinking by analogy — let's make this car look like that car, just sort of different or better — and instead deal with problems by stripping them down to the core and working your way up.

Not exact matches

As someone who views linkbuilding in a somewhat different light — and as someone who was considered by only his parents as «cool» — I think it's time to put that analogy to bed.

When thinking about dislocation, an Old Testament teacher moves by «dynamic analogy» to the exile, the determining and defining event of the Hebrew scriptures.

In pondering analogies with the Holocaust, we may be inclined to think that this is what distinguishes us from them: we know what we are doing, we recognize and openly discuss the potential risks and potential wrongs, and our decisions are accompanied by the prescribed quota of anguish.

According to this earlier and still popular way of thinking, we know the external world of the senses directly and other selves only mediately and by analogy.

Thus rationality takes over, crowding out the subtle discontinuities hinted at by the word analogy, and the tension between man's thoughts and what is other than man disappears.

In his view faith understands itself as the pure gift of God, a God who is imaged as acting from above and may be thought of by analogy with human persons.

By the way I don't think the host is real, so again your analogy never gets off the ground.

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.

For by Hartshorne's own criterion of the difference between an analogy and a mere symbol — namely, that the first differs from the second in not drawing a comparison between God and one concrete species of entity in contrast to all others — any comparison between God and the thinking animal can not possibly be an analogy but only a symbol (1962, 134).

Moreover, understanding that the metaphors taken from personal relations are to be supplemented and in part corrected by those from the mind - body relationship, I think the entire procedure approximates analogy in my sense.

While I concur that the empirical side of the tradition has been neglected, it is certainly present in Whitehead's philosophy and the development of the speculative side by his followers (just think back to the analogy of the airplane in the Introduction).

On the basis of these concrete thoughts and events, by analogy and by the listener's identification with what he hears, conclusions are reached, new perspectives are gained, decisions made.

What is briefly suggested here has to be sure no application to Abraham in case one might think it possible to find out by analogy an appropriate word for Abraham to end with, but it does apply to this extent, that one thereby perceives how necessary it is that Abraham at the last moment must carry himself through, must not silently draw the knife, but must have a word to say, since as the father of faith he has absolute significance in a spiritual sense.

It is precisely here that the scientists I have mentioned have been most impressed by process thinking, for they also see such an analogy running through the order of nature and they find that the use of that analogy is valuable to them in their work.

Thinking about it, the closest analogy I can come up with is a discussion at a party — again, strangers brought together through a social connection, participating in a conversation by choice in a public place.

Both Cameron and Miliband had mentioned this analogy, but Clegg finished it off by saying that the other leaders should probably lie down in a dark room if they think there won't be a coalition, adding to the sense that he was being clearer and more honest than the others.

By analogy, think of someone who is stroking a backhand in tennis who just seems to know better [than other tennis players] where the ball will go.

(By analogy, think of the universe as a picture imprinted on an enormous piece of paper.)

How CH + traces energy can be thought of by analogy to being on a boat in a tropical ocean on a dark, moonless night.

I think by spreading the focus and tending the other parts of the garden (to use Konrath's analogy), we can grow things there too.

DG.B: The Non-Site analogy is a way to think through how many of the things I reference and utilize in my work point elsewhere — whether it be to a different location by way of a direct 1:1 reference, such as the directly sourced cave - works of When, or an entirely different timescale by way of an object with a deep geologic history, as seen in the Moment series.

And yes by analogy we can't say a specific weather event is caused by climate change (although I think this is changing, and one or two have been for example flooding in the UK recently I think)

The producers may think it suggests the sort of meaning that inheres in the steroids analogy presented by Bob Henson (above on this thread)-- which is brilliant and deserves more comment.

The fluid language of the design, by inference and analogy, acts as a catalyst by promoting fluid thinking and interaction across all the design disciplines, whilst also encouraging the greatest degree of interaction between the activities of the Plaza and the public.

I think by inadvertently choosing a bad analogy I have exposed the problem with your assumptions.

Thanks Bill but I was thinking more along the lines intended by David Roberts, who first came up with the Nuremberg analogy, only to apologetically change his mind the next day: [Science] War - crimes trials, pre-stretched rope, drop tables, oiled hemp and black caps.

I'm also wary of analogies to systems which have heavy normative connotations, since I don't think centralized authority is inherently bad, just as democracy and individualism are by no means inherently good.

3 The father - mother analogy is used by George Lakoff to explain the rise of conservatism in the United States, see Thinking Points (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006).

Yes, I think the conceptual error can be described by analogy to the basic laws of motion.

It seems that the living cell more and more can be compared with the most advanced supercomputers, and as such, by analogy, it compels a reasonable consideration that maybe, just maybe, at some time in the very distant past, some thought was given to life's origin.»

We recently saw an analogy offered by Return Path (a leading email deliverability company) that we think hits the nail on the head.

Finally, I elaborate a bit on the thinking behind my suspicion that «GC's don't really want to change,» by analogy to shopping at Tiffany's... My point about the imprimatur of a brand name, or «quality» -LSB-...] may be a bit more subtle or at least a bit different than the implication that GC's will pay a price equal to the «detriment... if they didn't have it.»

According to a research study of university students by the American Psychological Association, «those who walked instead of sitting or being pushed in a wheelchair consistently gave more creative responses on tests commonly used to measure creative thinking, such as thinking of alternate uses for common objects and coming up with original analogies to capture complex ideas.»