"standard thinking" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe conventional, popular, or customary ways of thinking. For example, "The younger generation has challenged the standard thinking of their parents' generation when it comes to social issues."
But for quality, went the standard thinking, even the best digicam can't touch the cheapest film camera.
Just as surely, the standard thinking goes, their adult lives of marriage and parenthood will bring them back to observance.
The standard thinking about the 100 meters is that top-end speed can be held through 50 or 60 meters before deceleration begins.
"It's now so woven into standard thinking that it's become a cultural norm," a prominent hedge fund official told me this week.
Dr. Rapkin was a co-author of a pioneering 1950's study on what has since become standard thinking in the planning field: that land use must integrate vehicular traffic patterns.
Perhaps the most overlooked boost to e-books this year — and a challenge to some of the standard thinking about them — came from Apple's do-it-all gadget, the iPhone.
Take the thought that p. According to the standard theory, thinking that p is an intentional action only if the agent has an intention that includes "think that p" in its content.
Standard business thinking used to see big as inevitably beating small.
This is in contrast to the standard (naive) thinking that change in status coincides with the time of its first positive examination.
We propose to examine this issue from two different, and rather anti-institutional, perspectives: high-standard thinking and ethics of care.
"We're thinking standard rules, with the first to 11" points winning the competition, Mr. Griffis said.
