Other material went through free-thinking transformations.
As indicated previously, at the heart of relational thinking are transformations and substitutions of equivalent numbers and expressions, which are contingent not only on a relational conception of the equal sign, but also on a solid understanding of number properties, such as commutativity and distributivity.
And neither the West nor the Islamic world has a hope of recovering from the damage done in any constructive, humane way without profound transformations in thinking on both sides.
At Harvard, one significant transformation was thinking about institutional social media.
Our first observation is that the transformation of thinking over time does not reflect a progressive accumulation of insights.
The endpoint of the processes of transformation described by Vygotsky to accompany internalisation is a stage of 'thinking in pure meanings' (Vygotsky, 1987), in which all phenomenal properties of the language that transforms thinking are stripped away.
A visionary education minister today would not be obsessed with re-fighting the battles of the 1970s, but thinking radically about the rapid transformation of work that is underway.
I had a VCR, and I started to rent these films like 'Dog Day Afternoon,' 'The French Connection,' 'Annie Hall' — it just provoked a complete transformation in my thinking.
Mr. Stein's transformation into the thinking child's nonpurple Barney or baritone Teletubby is all the more remarkable considering that, before his career-altering role as the boring economics teacher in the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Mr. Stein was known in Hollywood -- persecuted, he says -- for his conservative political views.
Which is why Paul and the monk both say you must make the transformation of your thinking the goal of your spiritual path or practice (Philippians 4 9).
As we planned the logistics of that radical transformation, I began thinking carefully about the plan from an optimization point of view.
