This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought.
It was Carter G. Woodson, a co-founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, who, in 1926, proposed a "Negro History Week," for the second week of February, saying, "If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated".
A. Kyle Korver because of his 3-point shooting, and the thought of him wearing a Bulls uniform may factor in as well.
In both cases the operative factor, in holding thought and sensation together, is the imagination.
It is this particular claim to have experienced God's presence in human events—and its subsequent development that is the differentiating factor in Jewish thought.
To understand the happy buzz on the set is to factor in the thought that coursed through this company's collective mind when Ms. Sedgwick revealed she was leaving: time to look for other employment.
Another factor in a questionnaire investigating beliefs and thoughts that may influence its interpretation, and hence the results, is the way in which questions are worded.
"The economic crisis," Gillen says, "is a heavy factor in everybody's thought process".
"There's no indication at present that those cross hairs, Fox News, any particular commentator or show or set of remarks or person was a motivating factor in his thoughts," Mr. Pawlenty said of Mr. Loughner.
And factor in a free media.
But instead of dismissing thought experiments in philosophy we should consider it a crucial factor in assessing the quality of a thought experiment (see Rescher, 2005, pp. 9 14).
