Sentence examples for competent thinking from inspiring English sources

It is now a familiar claim in general philosophy that, in the case of certain objects and phenomena, an account of their nature is not built into the understanding of the words that refer to them that is sufficient for competent use of the words (or into the understanding of the relevant concepts that is sufficient for competent thinking about the objects).

Rather than thinking of competent speakers as representing the rules of grammar in the maximally abstract, simple and elegant format devised by generative linguists, Tomasello conceives of them as employing rules at a variety of different levels of abstraction, and, importantly, as employing rules that are not formulated in purely syntactic terms.

Philbin believes that he and Harvey St . Jeanexchanged the respect of competent adversaries, and he recalls thinking about that when he arrived at a public parking lot between the Lincoln Road Mall and the Convention Center late on a Wednesday morning last December and found St. Jean shot to death inside his Cadillac.

Rather than university intake necessarily having to reflect society as suggested by Simon Hughes (Universities must cut private school intake, 8 January), the universities' mission is to take the best from society and help them develop them into critically thinking, challenging and competent members of that society for the greater good of all.

This new approach, he says, confuses traditional voters, who make the mistake of thinking: "Yes, you may be competent but you believe in nothing".

Everyone in the ward will turn around and point and laugh at me for thinking that I am actually competent enough to practice medicine.

Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.

Among some partisans, however, there were interviewees who were open to thinking about other parties as being competent.

Although our data do not provide further information about this sliding mechanism directly, the FADox out) conformation we observe, and have shown to at least be chemically competent, adds an extra layer to consider when thinking about the reduction step.

Our position is that training has to be suitable for less competent practitioners too; and that even for competent ones, explicit awareness and articulation of the different discourses available for thinking and communication (Ekblom [2012a]) offers advantages over the tacit.

The country could use a serious, competent manager, which Governor Daniels has been, and still he's thinking about not running.