Sentence examples for speculative thinking from inspiring English sources

Like the guardians in "A Game of Thrones," these militants haven't actually looked over the wall, and given their absolute conviction that the human brain is the only source of awareness in the universe, you'd think that speculative thinking on the subject wouldn't be so threatening.

It is the combination of Conceptualism's bare-bones physicality and speculative thinking and an uncompromising, sharp personal and political content that defines Ms. Piper's work so far.

Such eastern Greek influences on thinking in the mainland imply a general Ionian intellectual primacy, which is most obvious in the sphere of speculative thinking.

This sort of coolly speculative thinking could not be more remote from the rococo rituals of religion as it is actually practiced across the world.

It has been plausibly claimed that there is a general link between the rise of a political system, namely democracy, and the self-critical speculative thinking that characterizes the Greeks in and to some extent before the 5th century.

The main motive of speculative thinking, then, is the resolution of apparent contradictions continuously arising in experience.

That imaginary space, where conjecture conspires to show us what "could be," is, of course, fertile territory for art that revels in such speculative future thinking.

Unlike Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, he did not have a broad inquisitive mind, nor was he speculative in his thinking in the philosophical sense of seeking intangible truths.

Perhaps people are more speculative in their thinking, after the recent roller-coaster ride, and more prepared psychologically to buy into a bubble.

The wonderful thing is that so many people bought and read this incredibly speculative work, probably thinking it was literary fiction.

The quantization of time that I envisage goes way beyond the usual quantization of action in Planck's constant, and is a speculative idea in thinking of space-time as fractal, as consistent with the fact that different actions have discretely different characteristic time (and space); and the idea that organic processes create space-time.