Worth thinking about, indeed.
Thinking about makes me weepy.
Dr. Burkes submitted a letter from his psychiatrist, who said that Dr. Burkes's attention-deficit condition "interferes with his ability to organize and categorize information prior to thinking about it," and that he was in a state of "confusion, perplexity and overwhelming fear" the day of the guilty plea.
It was just how things worked prior to anyone thinking about macroeconomics.
We can also use empirical data as a rough starting point for thinking about prior probability.
In his Some Free Thinking about Time, Prior maintained that "if something is the work of a free agent, then it wasn't going to be the case until that agent decided that it was" (Copeland 1996, p.48).
Other instructors explicitly use preassessment questions during the Engagement phase, not only to elicit student thinking about their prior knowledge of the subject but also to systematically collect information on all students' ideas to guide instruction.
From prior experience, she knows that few students are able to connect the ideas of photosynthesis with those of climate change, and she wants to start her new unit on transformation of matter and energy with an assessment question that will really get students thinking about their prior ideas.
These probes asked participants to indicate whether, in the period immediately prior to the probe, they were thinking about (i) the task/here and now, (ii) task unrelated personal events in the past, (iii) task unrelated personal events in the future, or (iv) abstract task unrelated thoughts with no temporal focus.
Universally, participants recalled not thinking about their knees prior to having symptoms.
