A serious historical novel like "Caleb's Crossing" always proposes that consciousness is at least in part a function of language, and that as language changes, so does thought, understanding, identity.
At first it didn't seem like much of a deal, but my intuition told me he knew something I didn't yet know about the way men thought -- and back then, I thought understanding men would give me information about the way I could make a life for myself".
Initially, I thought understanding cancer genetics would be key for curing the disease and therefore that was what I did for my PhD.
Intelligence, if that hive mind called Wikipedia is to believed, is "defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving".
Generalizability (reliability) coefficients for scores from Perceiving Emotions, Facilitating Thought, Understanding Emotion, and Managing Emotions were estimated to.71,.37 ,.50 and.46, respectively, which is substantially lower than reported in previous studies.
Although Gregory of Rimini has received considerable attention from historians of medieval thought, understanding his position in the history of philosophy has been made difficult by several problems that have plagued the historiography of fourteenth-century scholasticism.
I think understanding those differences can help all Americans, including Obama, better understand what is going on today and what might be done about it.
I think understanding is part of the treatment".
She says, 'I think understanding the difference between what is healthy and what is unhealthy.
"I think understanding how you got here is a really critical part of it.
I think understanding how the universe was born is very important.
