Sentence examples similar to modest minded from inspiring English sources

Like us, with our modest minds, an omniscient mind (i.e., God) can only calculate the expansion of π to some nth decimal place where our n is minute and God's n is (relatively) enormous and at no nth decimal place could any mind rightly conclude that because '777' has not turned up, it, therefore, will never turn up.

According to Shapiro and Polger, these strict demands show both that multiple realization in the sense required to fund the standard argument is "a relatively rare phenomenon"—despite the vast variability everywhere in the world and that a "relatively modest" mind-brain identity theory has little actually to worry about from it (2012, 284).

Rey sketches "a modest mind"—a CRTT system that has perception, can make deductive and inductive inferences, makes decisions on basis of goals and representations of how the world is, and can process natural language by converting to and from its native representations.

A phenomenal... & touching work called "L'Opera d'Aran" has recently opened at the big Theatre des Champs-Elysees, rented for three months so that the production can persist in the musical missionary aim that lies behind it-to lift the taste of the modest-minded French masses who have been crazy about Becaud's records.

By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, November 17, 1962 P. 170 A phenomenal... & touching work called "L'Opera d'Aran" has recently opened at the big Theatre des Champs-Elysees, rented for three months so that the production can persist in the musical missionary aim that lies behind it-to lift the taste of the modest-minded French masses who have been crazy about Becaud's records.

Actually, McKibben's aim in "Deep Economy" is relatively modest — to change minds, to present "a new mental model of the possible".

She was expressing a belief dating back to the early 1960's in the power of visualization and modest changes of mind to change the world profoundly for the better.

Reports in France claim Newcastle will pay £12m for Cabella – a sum that may disappoint Mike Ashley, the club's owner, who originally had a much more modest figure in mind.

The authors have mentioned it with individuals from modest backgrounds in mind, as geophysical materials are expensive (naturally, as they are not produced in the thousands).

In case you may not have heard as yet, Occupy Wall Street's "Strike Debt!" (SD!) working group has a modest goal in mind for 2015: to organize America's debt-burdened college and university students into a union strong enough to bring today's institutions of higher learning to their knees.

"This is not to my mind a modest proposal," Mr. Copps said.