Instead of thinking merely about how you want things to be, pretend that you are your future self, thinking back over the accomplishments and current position of your company.
So, on her view, we (and BIVs) could be a priori justified in thinking, merely on the basis of examining our concepts, that all vixens are female and that there are (or at least were) vixens, and that all bachelors are unmarried and that there are (or at least were) bachelors.
The story, about three friends and an outsider who forces their secrets to the surface, is heavy with the melancholy of missed opportunity, but now merely thinking of this slice of geography brings on a melancholy all its own.
Through later work with electromyographic equipment, it became apparent that the muscular phenomena are not the actual vehicles of thinking; they merely facilitate the appropriate activities in the brain when an intellectual task is particularly exacting.
In light of our precarious economic state of affairs thinking small merely perpetuates mediocrity.
Thinking requires merely the logical possibility of what is being entertained.
The fact that all of the participants mentioned these larger "themes" suggests that while the exercise did function as a review of physiology concepts for many students, overall they were able to appreciate the broader themes of applying physiology in clinical assessment and integrating their knowledge of organ systems, as opposed to merely thinking of them discretely.
But Edwards said today that he was not merely thinking of a big play to get things going.
Second, there's a slower-burning pleasure in merely thinking of your story being out in the world, trickling into minds, wherever there are cinemas.
Seeing the baby's inconsolable face reminded Kirsten of a song her foster mother used to sing, but while the melody remained the lyrics were dead to her, because merely thinking of this mother meant collaborating in a lie and everything in it was somehow corrupted.
