To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more.
Pöggeler (1972) famously argues that Heidegger does not have a "philosophy of art" at all, because Heidegger does not think art distinctively as art but only in terms of the role that art plays disclosing being in time.
I think that distinctively Christian categories of thought have had little to nothing to contribute to the perspective of those Christians who have supported either EIT or torture.
Before about 1980 it was widely thought that distinctively hominin fossils could be identified from 14 to 12 million years ago (mya).
Not for the first time, I think about how distinctively rugged and – yes – unspoilt Greece's sun-scorched highlands and islands are.
That was the year he turned down a lucrative offer to coach the New England Patriots, remaining instead in a town that likes to think itself more distinctively sleepy than it is.
The one trait that we think of as most distinctively human, beyond our fine cheekbones and impressive cerebellum, is the stuff we make, our culture paintings, beads, figurines, and everything that followed.
This is for a single, simple reason: the eccentricity of genius was central to Fischer's narrative, a narrative that was, ironically enough, thought to be distinctively American.
Faster, cheaper computers and increasingly clever software, the authors say, are giving machines capabilities that were once thought to be distinctively human, like understanding speech, translating from one language to another and recognizing patterns.
Many of the things often thought of as distinctively Mexican such as tequila, mariachi music, and the ornate embroidered sombrero and costume of the charro (gentleman rancher)—originated in the West.
