To my way of thinking, what is distinctive about natural science (as opposed to other forms of human intellectual effort) is the use of a specific method (the "hypothetico-deductive method") that decides among competing hypotheses by formulating falsifiable predictions of each hypothesis [ 57].
Would one think that some object's nature requires it to belong to kind K without thinking that there is some distinctive (essential) property characteristic of all Ks?
We are used to thinking of life based upon the distinctive properties of carbon and water.
"Thinking back, it was such a distinctive sound that we invented.
Later, when the monkey reenacted that distinctive firing pattern by thinking about how he would move his arms, the two virtual arms carried out the command.
Moralization is a psychological state that can be turned on and off like a switch, and when it is on, a distinctive mind-set commandeers our thinking.
Noticing Frank Gehry's distinctive curvy plywood chairs, he remembers thinking to himself, "This person has good taste".
Plato does nothing to encourage the reader to view these works as a distinctive and separate component of his thinking.
Yet it is, without doubt, a vividly distinctive and revealing case study of Conservative thinking on urban development, housing, planning powers and social policy put into radical effect at local government level, supported by regional (City Hall) and national government.
Greve et al. (2009), borrowing the proposition of Kluckhohn (1951), maintain that culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiment in artifacts.
