Music has the unique ability to transform us independently of our thinking mind, to a place uninhibited by the judgments, doubts and fears that too often dictate the narration of our thoughts and self-limiting beliefs.
Perhaps more important, she is just as eloquent and on the mark in describing the ends of a great public education: compassionate, involved, intellectually curious students who are motivated to read and learn, and capable of thinking independently and creatively.
Again, the point is supposed to be that it makes no sense to say of the very person who is the mathematical cyclist, independently of any way of thinking about him, that he is or is not essentially rational (or two-legged).
"Parties have a bad reputation -- both major parties are viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans -- and there's something appealing about the idea of thinking independently rather than blindly supporting a party," political science professor Alan Abramowitz wrote early last year.
For example, Ford Doolittle has disputed whether objective evidence for UCA, as described by a universal tree, is possible even in principle: Indeed, one is hard pressed to find some theory-free body of evidence that such a single universal pattern relating all life forms exists independently of our habit of thinking that it should [ 19].
"I'm hearing from a lot of independents and independently thinking Republicans, who, while they don't want to abandon their party, they don't want to lend any support to this kind of right-wing extremist approach, union-busting approach, the old borrow-and-spend approach," he said.
Elisabeth thus rejects an account of mind that reduces thinking to bodily states, but at the same time she calls into question the idea that the capacity of thinking exists wholly independently of body, that is, that a thinking thing is substance properly speaking.
He became a retailer extraordinaire, whose radical innovations among them clearance sales and modern advertising show, one might argue, what Melville called the Quaker habit of "thinking untraditionally and independently".
Students receiving education in STEM are thought to be capable of thinking logically and utilizing technology independently to solve problems, innovate, and invent.
For yet another, we have surrendered the luxury of thinking about our foods and ingredients independently of their environmental impacts.
