Sentence examples for govern thinking from inspiring English sources

What important ideas should govern thinking about it: expiatory sacrifice, ransom from slavery, feudal satisfaction, legal justification, exemplary action?

It follows that content is ultimately not determined socially but by the nature of the objects that we causally interact with, and that there are "intellectual norms that govern thinking about objective matters" (ibid: 697).[46] This argument from externalism therefore does not depend on the assumption that individuals are committed to the community practice.

Commentators vary on how far they believe that scientists' attachment to particular paradigms governs their thinking.

The explanation is that 'logical laws express the conditions which govern our thinking in the sense of describing the limits of what we can think' (1976, 329).

But if you actually want to govern, such thinking is of limited use.

Stewart's affinity for the scientific approach to philosophical problems is reflected in his mathematics career, and he often made analogies between the axioms of mathematics and the laws that govern human thinking.

But a similar reluctance didn't govern the thinking of the people who concocted the legal theory Griffith accepted.

That the symptoms of schizophrenia break loose during the second and third decades of life makes sense, in retrospect: adolescence and early adulthood are periods when synaptic pruning reaches a climax in the regions of the brain that govern planning and thinking.

That has led to a level of anxiety here because only the president knows exactly what each of the most powerful institutions — the military, the security services and the governing National Democratic Party — is thinking or planning, said political experts.

You can't approximate!" Many of my father's pronouncements took this x-is-x form, always with the implication that to think otherwise, to admit that x could be anything other than x, was to abandon the strict codes that governed his thinking and held the world in place.

Trump's political strategy reduced to this: as president, he would overturn the conventions that had governed right thinking since the end of the Cold War.