Sentences with phrase «whole system of thought»

It would seem, then, that these concepts lie close to the basis of Ecclesiastes» whole system of thought.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

They are not easy ideas to grasp, and in isolation from his whole system of thought they prove less convincing.

The pastoral chaos that has emerged at present has not, then, emerged suddenly and inexplicably from nowhere, it is the end result of the gradual breakdown of a whole system of thought.

And powerful constraints that exist in the mind can be mobilized to introduce a particular concept (or whole system of thinking) in a way that children are most likely to learn it and least likely to distort it.

Not exact matches

So thinking of a particular shift within the system as «anti-capitalist» makes about as much sense as thinking that the discrediting of a particular scientist or the fall of a particular scientific theory amounts to the downfall of science, as a whole.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

And it just goes to show a lot of people's edge, and in his case, I think, for example, is that is his ability to stick to his system, you know, much like you talk about in blackjack where he says, «Look, this is what I do and realize there's gonna be times of underperformance,» and not changing his whole approach when markets are down or he's doing poorly.

I mean given that the fractional reserve banking system is so over-levered, globally, but just thinking about the U.S. for a minute if everybody put 5 % -10 % of their money in Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrencies, the whole banking system implodes on itself.

By reducing the potential for clone - like mindsets that traditional systems can incur, Trinkler hopes to enable future generations to not only think in unique ways, but also to build tools that are beneficial to the collective good of society as a whole.

I left so shaken that I was willing to tear apart my whole belief system, my whole history, to get the heck away from that kind of thinking.

Second, there is a set of time - systems derived from the whole set of space - time abstractions and this set of derivatives of an abstraction «expresses the totality of those properties of the creative advance which are capable of being rendered explicit in thought» (PNK 81).

In order to get the alcohol out of his system so that he could think the whole thing through, Bill had himself admitted to Towne Hospital in New York City.

I think, maybe (I'm still working on the whole «unbelief» system... there is far more dogma on «unbelief» than I thought possible, and I'm only recently becoming aware of the amount of it) the abyss is the unknown that we move away from, or, don't move into... once we do go there, it is not an unknown, and therefor can no longer be an abyss.

Few stop to think, however, that the whole world system is based on a sort of apartheid.

This initially occurs in Descartes and Spinoza, but it becomes far more comprehensive in Schelling and Hegel, and so much so that the whole body of dogmatic theology undergoes a metamorphosis into pure philosophical thinking in Hegel's system.

Those who think on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

... if Man organizes himself gradually on a global scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element is intellectually and affectively connected with every other, he will attain to a maximum of individual mastery by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the system as a whole.

The difference, from the Whiteheadian point of view, is that whereas these deep ecologists think we must choose between an ethical - valuational approach to other creatures and an appreciation of our unity with the whole system of nature, Whitehead shows us the truth of both.

It is a system where the elite rule, the ideology you are looking for is Theocracy which is one of the few politicesed religious ruling systems that realy reaaly goes big on the whole «supressing» other ideas / thoughts part, it comes from always beling you are right.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

More importantly, each, including Ford, arrived at his interpretation of Whitehead's thought by means of the traditional approach — the approach that expects to find, within the confines of Process and Reality, the whole of Whitehead's mature metaphysical system.

I thought the characters were flat and unattractive, the story ho - hum, and the premise churlish and clumsy (i.e. the whole point is to tear down the belief system of others rather than put something positive forward as an alternative).

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

I don't necessarily believe that the current system is beyond reform, there are some positive movements in this direction, but nothing short of a whole change of perception and thought is necessary; not something that can be achieved with just a little nudge and encouragement.

Only after the Old Testament canon was complete and in 70 A.D. the temple was destroyed by the Romans, was Jewish thought, as a whole, finally cast out of its local matrix, and even then the legal system, with its particularistic minutiæ, was the more insisted on because the sacrificial cult was gone.

We have one of those systems of circular causation which are characteristic of the whole Whiteheadian way of thought about organic unity.

There is so much more that could be, and perhaps should be, written about the place of Christ in the thought of Edward Holloway, but already it will be clear from our brief overview that a vision of Christ as the Head and Heart of all things was deeply woven into his whole theological system.

Feeling the inevitable post-holiday urge to eat healthy, I thought my system could use a dose of whole grains and veggies.

More and more I find myself drawn to a food philosophy grounded in the teachings of yoga and ayurveda, whole system thinking, and thoughtful sourcing.

«When you look at the number of loans that happen here and there, the whole system has to be thought about again because we have two kinds of solution in there.»

The 24 - year old from Argentina came through the academy system at Arsenal and may well have thought he might never break through into the first team after being sent out on loan to no less than four different clubs, the latest being for the whole of last season with Wolves in the Championship.

The Foxes will still have the massive Robert Huth but without Morgan they should be much more susceptible to balls into the box, which is why I think Arsenal should also go back to the old back four system and get the full backs to get forward and use the whole width of our pitch.

And every time we get a strong (major - conference) No. 3 team (2003, 2004, 2008, 2011), we get talk of a split national title once they win their bowl game; it doesn't matter whether we think they are as good as the 1 - versus - 2 winner, it's just that «The system's broken» and «This whole thing is meaningless without a playoff.»

If we say Evans isn't allowed to return to his position because of the success and riches it can bring; where would that thought process end and what does that say for our whole justice system in general?

«We think it would enable a local, holistic view of the whole school system in an area.

«I think right now restructuring the whole system is not something that I have immediately on the horizon in terms of addressing.»

«Now people removed all that I said about the poor management of the economy and then made it look like I started by talking about the resource locations of this thing and put it forward and changed certain things to make me look like I was being a tribalist and it was bad, this is where I find people very mischievous;... You take the whole thing out of context and make it look very tribalistic, so, I think, yes, it happened, newspapers reported something wrong and I think people should be ashamed of themselves when they do this kind of «cut and paste» to create that wrong impression in the system...» Mr Osafo Marfo clarified.

Mr Clegg told the MP he thought Mr Martin was «fully committed» to overhauling the system of parliamentary expenses, which at present was «bringing the whole of politics into disrepute».

Hillis: But I think, you know, tying it to back to the whole computer thing, the idea of having conceptual systems that really are well thought out, so they're simple and easy to understand, so you don't have all these configurational problems that happen when you start combining them all together; because then it all of a sudden becomes more like a weather pattern: very unpredictable.

«The whole point is that undigested food goes directly into the small intestine,» Teixeira explains, «where we think it is unleashing a whole bunch of new hormonal systems.»

As one expert in the field has written, entangled quantum systems are not even «divisible by thought»: our natural inclination to analyze systems into subsystems, and to build up knowledge of the whole from careful study of its parts, grinds to a halt in the quantum domain.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

«From my perspective and from listening to the minister from Indonesia talk on this issue a number of times, I think the one point that the Indonesian government has made over and over — and the main reason they are holding back — is that they regard the whole system as to how viruses get turned into vaccines unfair,» he says.

According to Dr Chatterji, also from the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO, «Collectively, we need to look beyond the costs commonly associated with aging to think about the benefits that an older, healthier, happier, and more productive older population can bring to society as a whole.»

So we have to develop new approaches, and I think if we can build synthetic cells and substitute or insert whole cassettes of genes, we can try to understand empirically what the different genes do in developing living systems.

It was a whole new way of thinking about the connection between molecular systems and computation.

«He's one of a dying breed,» says physiologist Arlan Richardson, director of the Aging Research and Education Center at UTHSCSA, «one of the [few] people who has really thought about whole - animal systems.»