"Now, we find ourselves in a period of enforced austerity with the idea of Europe being challenged and Greece taking a battering," says Rosenberg, "Because our shows don't aim at a preconceived end-point, they're malleable to current events".
An engineer works according to a preconceived plan, with a precise goal for the desired end, and uses material designed specifically toward that end; the tinkerer, by contrast, works without a clear plan by making creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand to produce new objects that possess some kind of unexpected functionality.
Tomma Abts's non-representational oils, unvaryingly 38cm by 48cm, are made, as Ms Carey-Thomas put it, "with no source material, no sketches and no preconceived idea of how they will end up".
12 Mile Limit (500 South Telemachus, Mid-City) The bar scene at 12 Mile Limit plays fast and loose with preconceived notions as to what a high-end cocktail bar should be.
The creator 'need not be acting in order to achieve any ulterior end; he not be following a preconceived plan; and he is certainly not transforming anything that can be properly be called a raw material' (129).
When there is too much preconceived ideas or too much "I," the work ends up in the trash bin.
To enter into an end-of-life discussion with the preconceived belief that withdrawing is better than withholding therapy is equivalent to saying that it is the physician's duty to convince the ICU patient or their family of this.
The application of preconceived beliefs also negates the principle of patient autonomy at the end of life.
Unclouded by preconceived notions of what the wines should take like, high-end wines might come across as simplistic and disappointing, while the most unassuming bottles of the bunch can reveal hidden virtues.
Below, they share some of the most frustrating preconceived notions they've encountered about divorce since their marriages ended.
