Sentence examples for primitive thought from inspiring English sources

Throughout the world colours control different primitive thought processes, or symbolisms associated with ceremonies and life encounters.

It is argued that supposedly primitive thought is logically consistent but that the terms of this logic are not those with which modern Western culture is familiar.

Furthermore, many anthropologists, notably Paul Radin (1883 1959), moved away from earlier categorizations of so-called primitive thought and pointed to the crucial role of creative individuals in the process of mythmaking.

From the primitive thought that mental illness was linked to possession by the devil, Freud's more general skepticism of religion took hold in the first half of the last century, creating hesitancy on the part of many in the psychiatric field to even address the subject.

Functional neuroimaging studies have correlated primitive thought and emotion with decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex and increased activity in the medial temporal lobes (Pietrini et al., 2000; Dougherty et al., 2004), while suppression of these behaviours correlated with medial prefrontal cortex activations (Pietrini et al., 2000; Beauregard et al., 2001; Dougherty et al., 2004).

Tucked away within the philosophy of mind, the biosemantic program typically uses evolutionary theory to account for only our most basic and primitive thoughts, and to account for only a certain feature of these thoughts, at that: their capacity for representation.2 (Much more will be said about the representational aspect of thoughts in what follows).

The simplifying process was now inspired, however, by the fundamental tenet of all primitive scientific thought namely, that orderliness and naturalness are in a directly proportionate relationship.

"Each step in the exercise chain is a distraction from the primitive, fearful thought center," Goewey explains.

Feeling vulnerable to attack, at the most primitive level of thought, holds women back in subtle ways, she believes.

Likewise, Miller (1931) (overtly influenced by Jaensch, but without sign of racism) regarded eidetic imagery (not, I think, clearly distinguished from mental imagery in general in this era) as a "primitive" form of thought, normal in young children, but likely to associated with psychosis and psychotic hallucination if it appears more than very rarely in adult experience.

It takes you back to almost primitive emotions, the thought of being lonely, bored, a failure at not finding and keeping a mate when all around you people are partnering up like it's the rapture.