Sentence examples for account of thinking from inspiring English sources

Thinking is not directed or improved by your having an account of thinking, that is, an epistemology; your mind operates independently of whether or not you have a philosophy of it; politicians don't have philosophical frameworks; they have strategies attached to some idea of what they want to get done.

Even so, he also discusses two other capacities, imagination (De Anima iii 3) and desire (De Anima iii 9 and 10), and appeals to them in both his account of thinking and his philosophy of action.

Freud's account of thinking here is idiosyncratic and has strange implications, such as that thinking about swimming the English Channel takes far more energy than thinking about licking a stamp.

This word, however, is as ambiguous as it is central to the Marburg account of thinking.[58] Occasionally, "function" seems to mean something like subjective, psychic act, and as such is excluded from epistemological consideration;[59] usually, however, it signifies the spontaneity of thinking, not in psychological terms, but as the rational act of hypothetical legislation discussed earlier.

Of course, the first reaction to such an apparently naive claim may be that Arendt overestimated the power of thinking or that she held on to a highly normative account of thinking that does not correspond to the various modes of reflection, self-muttering, and silent chatter that goes by that name.

Accordingly, Aristotle's initial account of thinking will directly parallel his analysis of perception (De Anima iii 4, 429a13 18).

Several scholars have provided accounts of thinking about abstract entities and relationships that we never actually see or touch based on principles of grounded and embodied cognition (Casasanto & Boroditsky, 2008; Lakoff & Nunez, 2000).

This reveals the potentially devastating consequences of the removal of accounting ways of thinking from relationships between the state and private bodies to which pivotal services have been outsourced.

By Payne's account, this way of thinking gets things backward.

Some coaches I know would say: "Why the hell should I explain myself to anybody?" But in self-preservation terms, it's better to put yourself on the front foot by giving a clear account of your thinking.

In his sketchy account of the process of thinking in De anima (On the Soul), Aristotle says that the intellect, like everything else, must have two parts: something analogous to matter and something analogous to form.