It is a meme, a word coined by the evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins to describe a thought that spreads through the population and seems to take on a life of its own.
He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit's cousinship to a leopard.
In Fig. 3, we describe a simple thought experiment that illustrates this concept.
But we can describe a risky thought process as one in which a thinker who accepts certain propositions perhaps tentatively or hypothetically comes to accept, on that basis, a proposition that does not follow from the initial premises.
In it she described the work of a little known Jesuit priest and paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin, who 50 years earlier described a global sphere of thought, the "living unity of a single tissue" containing our collective thoughts, experiences and consciousness.
Also, the focus of this study was on specific event terms that unequivocally described a violent act or thought – such as homicide or physical assault.
Participants described a variety of negative thoughts relating to self, their environment, and the future.
The key to success with banks today is to show past profitability, and to describe a well thought-out plan for future profits.
This is just one example of what advertising might look like in the very near future as described in a thought-provoking report on "digital market manipulation" by legal scholar Ryan Calo.
Among several persuasive thoughts, Nowell described a cancer progression model where major genetic errors drive natural selection of cells with improved fitness in response to intrinsic and extrinsic pressures.
