Sentence examples for classic thought from inspiring English sources

In a recent study of moral decision-making, for example, he recruited hundreds of Turkers to repeat a classic thought experiment known as the trolley problem.

Take the classic thought experiment of whether a person who lives a normal life with ups and downs is better or worse off than someone who takes a happiness pill.

In effect, this differs precious little from a schematic computer program, with people playing the role of software modules that, given a particular input, create a usable output for the next module to churn.The planned test of the system also carries a whiff of basic computer science: the classic thought experiment devised by Alan Turing, an artificial-intelligence pioneer.

Fodor (1987) agrees that the classic thought experiments have indeed shown that many mental states have wide contents, at least according to folk psychology.

In the classic "thought experiment" to demonstrate this, a moggy, known as Schrödinger's cat, is either killed or not killed by what the physicist Erwin Schrödinger called a "diabolical device" operating on quantum principles.

In a preliminary study of East Asian vs. Western intuitions, Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, & Stephen Stich (2001) found that East Asians often have the "wrong intuitions" regarding variations on classic philosophical thought experiments, including Gettier-type thought experiments.

This modern-day moral dilemma has its roots in a classic philosophical thought experiment known as the trolley problem.

Before it took a historical-political turn in the middle of the 18th century, and again after the Second World War, the classic utopian thought thrived on the expectation that the future is open and that the social processes can be controlled.

The show debuted Melania Moments, inane musings from Trump's wife that mirrored the show's classic Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.

Bellow's voice modulates easily between the lofty and the demotic, between, as one of his characters puts it, "classics of thought... and the funny papers".

Here he takes inspiration from Freud's classic of modern thought, The Interpretation of Dreams.