Sentence examples for governing thoughts from inspiring English sources

Over the past several decades, however, a burgeoning body of scientific evidence has indicated that an exogenous substance is less important to addiction than is the disease process that the substance triggers in the brain — a process that disrupts the brain's anatomical structure, chemical messaging system and other mechanisms responsible for governing thoughts and actions.

I'm not saying every action scene should be shot in long takes like a Béla Tarr film, but wouldn't it be great if film-makers could temper their jitterbug cutting with a modicum of governing thought, so we could see what's going on?

In contrast, the categories of Being-logic seem to govern thought processes that are restricted to qualitative phenomena and their co-ordinations.

But the generality and inherently formal character of pure general logic is fully consistent with its being objectively valid: hence the fact that thought by its very nature is object-directed does not by itself imply that the logic governing thought is ontically restricted or objectually-committed.

For this abstract object to be realized in the world, on Lewis's view, is for a community to adopt it as a convention governing their thoughts and actions.

That means that if we're looking for a youngster lost in a crowd, the brain areas usually dedicated to recognizing other objects such as animals, or even the areas governing abstract thought, shift their focus and join the search party.

But, more importantly, Lewis pointed out that maximalism was incompatible with what he took to be the master principle governing our thought about modality: Hume's denial of necessary connection between distinct existences.

Now Aristotle had recognized three different kinds of scientific principles: common axioms governing all thought, so well known that no one can deny them, and proper principles limited in range to a given science its definitions and postulates.

The authority of reason is thus conferred by public communication among free rational agents, and it consists in the fact that the principles that govern our thoughts are neither self-serving nor self-defeating.

Instead of allowing those feelings to govern my thoughts, I simply owned them and consciously chose to honor this precious time to myself.

Yet, most of our ideas about thalamo-cortical communication are based on sensory systems, but little is known about high-order association areas of the cortex that govern our thoughts, emotions, and actions.