Sentence examples for oppositional thinking from inspiring English sources

The overarching goal of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency was to destroy all oppositional thinking.

It is a form that was unique to Kant, but it raised certain problems of "oppositional" thinking, to which 19th-century philosophers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Søren Kierkegaard were subsequently to turn.

Therefore, Zen maintains that to understand "no-thought" or "no-image" we need an experiential dimension that goes beyond the oppositional thinking of the everyday standpoint.

Get your team together and ask them to use oppositional thinking, to search for a completely contrary way to do something.

Here the reader can sense that the scope and the meaning of "no-thought and no-image" has been expanded to include the logical use of language, not simply a rejection of oppositional thinking.

Deconstruction is oppositional thinking and action.

Consequently, the subject stands opposed either to the outer world (e.g., nature) or to the inner world (the world of psychē), or both, and hence it promotes an oppositional mode of thinking.

"My primary motivation in writing [Culture and Society] was oppositional," he explained, "to counter the appropriation of a long line of thinking about culture to what were by now decisively reactionary positions … It allowed me to refute the increasing contemporary use of the concept of culture against democracy, socialism, the working class or popular education, in terms of the tradition itself".

Such tactics may, in fact, be the only way of achieving any of your goals, if you are faced with an opponent who has the power to block any of your moves, and whose attitude is so relentlessly oppositional that they instinctively block any initiative they think you are really committed to.These are just a couple of things I've been thinking about today.

Thinking, thinking.

And thinking, thinking, thinking".