Digital communications are sacrosanct, the tools of the revolution, so the criticisms of them are merely a path to thinking about how they can be done better.
Matilda discovers a secret power to move objects merely by thinking — a power that is attributed to her mind's not being challenged enough.
They found that it was prompted not only by considering mixed evidence, but by merely thinking about the topic.
The story, about three friends and an outsider who forces their secrets to the surface, is heavy with the melancholy of missed opportunity, but now merely thinking of this slice of geography brings on a melancholy all its own.
That is, there is no logical "third realm," but merely a single process called "thinking [Denken];"[90] it is an immediately given fact of thinking that there are logical laws that stand over against all our other thoughts and representations as norms (L I: 76).
He said the new device "represents a significant shift of thinking of PlayStation as merely a box or console to thinking as a leading authority on play".
Six Thinking Hats is merely a convenient way of putting parallel thinking into practice.
But can one form such negative concepts merely by thinking of an object that appears not to be great, without judging about its greatness?
There's recent history here, in the form of executives merely thinking a "name" is enough – in this case, Linehan; a couple of months ago, and in a far, far worse case of unfunny, Ben Elton – to create, as they probably say, albeit with knowing cynicism, comedy gold.
It would be easy to be lulled by these opening chapters, thinking them merely a supremely well-written version of something we've seen before — the generic proper nouns; the placid, unquestioning populace; the spunky protagonist primed to puncture its illusions.
