Sentences with phrase «which preconceived ideas»

The reason is because everyone is different when it comes to the speed with which preconceived ideas and mental barriers are broken down giving way to acceptance of new and better information.

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«You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that hom.ose.xuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,» said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas.

They are secondary because historically and philosophically they have a different pedigree, being based upon a few preconceived ideas concerning the nature and processes of the universe, and of man, upon which the whole concatenation of objections hinge.

Instead of starting with a preconceived idea of what a thing was, men started with such facts as they were able to discover by thorough investigation and then, on the basis of these facts, made a generalization or an hypothesis which seemed best and most adequately to explain the facts.

I read lots, I also discovered Hypno Birthing, and a Hypno - Birthing practitioner in Paris (where I live) and one of the single most powerful things that I ever did was a fear - releasing session with the Hypno - birthing therapist, which allowed me to completely release any preconceived ideas and fears about birth in general and my baby's birth especially.

Approaching a biomedical problem from the informatics point of view — for example, Butte is studying which gene variants might predispose children to type 2 diabetes — allows a researcher to survey the available data without preconceived ideas.

The present review also questions whether there are still some preconceived ideas about ketogenic diets, which may be presenting unnecessary barriers to their use as therapeutic tools in the physician's hand.

«Curious and reflective, he asked questions which greatly enriched class conversations and which his classmates said, «inspired us to challenge our preconceived ideas and opinions.»

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

Drawing is making an image which expresses commitment and involvement... rejecting ideas which are possible to preconceive... destroying images that lie, discarding images that are dead.

With this corruption of science by «post normal science» (i.e. science which looks for the evidence to fit a preconceived idea), and the propaganda machinery of the BBC, there is something appallingly similar to rise of Nazism with its pseudo-scientific Eugenics and Goebellian propaganda.

In fact, the WGI report is built upon a process which, as revealed by the Climategate emails, is, by its very nature, designed not to produce an accurate view of the state of climate science, but instead to be an «assessment» of the state of climate science — an assessment largely driven by preconceived ideas of the IPCC design team and promulgated by various elite chapter authors.

The end result of this «assessment» is to elevate evidence which supports the preconceived ideas and denigrate (or ignore) ideas that run counter to it.

Your Executive Resume — Avoid the Age Gap If you're a mature job seeker, (in your forties, fifties or sixties, depending on who you ask), there might be some instances in which you may be discriminated against, frequently because of preconceived assumptions that «older» workers will tire more easily, their ideas are antiquated, they'll take -LSB-...]