Sentence examples for think readily from inspiring English sources

They do not tend to think readily of disablers in this case, that is, possibilities consistent with the apples being ripe and not falling from the tree, and so this possibility is ruled out as false.

In this case people appear to think readily about counterexamples based on alternative causes, that is, they judge that the cause is consistent with a third possibility, that the apples were not ripe and they fell from the tree anyway, perhaps because of strong winds (not-A and B).

Most people do not tend to think readily of disablers, that is, possibilities consistent with Joe cutting his finger and it not bleeding, and they do not tend to think of alternative causes, that is, possibilities consistent with Joe not cutting his finger and it bleeding — even if such possibilities exist (e.g., Cummins et al., 1991; De Neys et al., 2005).

In this case people appear to think readily about disablers, e.g., the key was turned and the car did not start, perhaps because the battery was dead (A and not-B), that is, they judge the cause to be consistent with a third possibility.

"But there's greater acid in them, so I think people readily adjust to them in a savory setting".

Anonymous malice is, you might think, most readily forgiven when it is most unforgivable: when the authors are educated, prepared to threaten libel actions and, even, already command prominent platforms for self-expression.

Later, when she and Rich had settled down, she felt somewhat embarrassed to think how readily she had played the younger woman, the happy home-wrecker, the lissome, laughing, tripping ingénue.

When infusing tea with love we might think more readily of Rupert Brooke's Grantchester, or his lesser known Dining Room Tea, or even Thomas Hardy's parodic At Tea, where a husband and wife sup with the woman the husband would have preferred to marry.

There is good psycholinguistic evidence that those who encounter sentences (like (3) and (4)) using the terms 'he' and 'man' think more readily of males than of females.[2] If this is right, then the use of these words can be seen as contributing to the invisibility of women.

IF there's one nationality the rest of the world thinks it readily and totally understands, it is the Germans.

Such a two-fold advantage, it was thought, would readily lead to the swamping of populations with steadily more prevalent asexual females, and the progressive elimination of sex.