When Lawrence arrived to meet Weekley for lunch, he instead found his German wife, Frieda, thirty-three years old, the mother of three children, and the former lover of the unorthodox psychoanalyst Otto Gross, from whom she had picked up the congenial idea of the Oedipus complex; her influence is patent in the title of "Sons and Lovers".
Chomsky finds this idea congenial: being of a logical rather than an anthropological or literary temperament, he has never been attracted to the notion that psychological originality or cultural variety is essential to what it means to be human.
The upshot, then, is that although most actual Connectionist models are Empiricist-friendly in their format and in their representational commitments, they can also be implemented in a way that is congenial to Nativist ideas.
General Relativity theory is, at first blush, very congenial to the core idea of the dynamical approach.
It is hard to imagine an idea less congenial to the adaptationist habit of thought that has dominated biology from pre-evolutionary times.
Cheng Li, of the Brookings Institution, has noted that, contrary to the myth of "democracy by osmosis" — the notion that simply living in the U.S. will make foreigners more congenial to democratic-liberal ideas — many of the most strident nationalist books in China are written by people who have returned from abroad.
With Hulu our relationship has been a bit less congenial.
While intuitively congenial, the very generality of this idea renders it necessarily qualitative.
Over his 50-year career, Alan has become fast friends with many HLS colleagues, meeting for congenial meals and reading groups, sharing ideas about such topics as philosophy, history, and civil rights.
As soon as these logicians became aware of Leibniz's ideas, they recognized Leibniz's congenial affinity and accepted his priority.
The aim of this series is to provide a congenial environment in which to present new ideas and discuss interesting problems and challenges.
