Sentence examples for conducted thinking from inspiring English sources

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.

(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).

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).

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

Then we collected student responses to these assessment items, and conducted think-aloud interviews to better understand student thinking about natural selection and the ways in which the assessment items were eliciting that 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.

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

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.

Not simply (as Ayer suggests) because the phenomena do not command the stage of a private theatre: in the sense that no one else can tell us about them they are in that respect private.[12] As Ryle himself admits, "the technical trick of conducting our thinking in auditory word-images, instead of spoken words, does indeed secure secrecy for our thinking…" (1949a, 35).