Sentence examples for conduct thinking from inspiring English sources

"We tend not to censure lackadaisical conduct, thinking this is what customers want and that we would appear out of touch if we disapproved.

When I was young I would pick up my pencils and pretend to conduct, thinking: "It can't be that difficult, surely!" When I was 15, someone who knew their stuff promptly brought me back down to earth.

He began by tirelessly hand-copying hundreds of original scores in the Vienna Library, when he was meant to be studying conducting (but he scorned conducting, thinking it "the easiest way out" in music, with never a wrong note to worry about).

Characterizing "reasoning" as "responsibly conducted thinking" of course does not suffice to analyze the notion.

Explicit reasoning is responsibly conducted thinking, in which the reasoner, guided by her assessments of her reasons (Kolodny 2005) and of any applicable requirements of rationality (Broome 2009), attempts to reach a well-supported answer to a well-defined question.

Rules of Engagement belongs very clearly in the former category, as a somewhat extreme apologia for military conduct and thinking.

While it is likely that small businesses will have a blended process of traditional and Internet-based ways to conduct business, thinking of the Internet in terms of a substitution puts things in context.

In my eyes at the time -- and to this day -- it takes a person of integrity who is well grounded to admit an error in previous conduct or thinking affecting another.

(Recall that we are understanding "reasoning" quite broadly, as responsibly conducted thinking: nothing in this understanding of reasoning suggests any uniquely privileged place for deductive inference: cf. Harman 1986. For more on defeasible or "default" principles, see section 2.5).

Students learned about the lab's science; learned how to conduct research, including thinking critically and designing and performing experiments; and learned how to interact professionally with graduate-, postdoctorand, and faculty-level researchers.

The intimacy between conduct and thinking is best illustrated in the title of Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding, written as an appendix to his Essay.