Sentence examples for type of thought from inspiring English sources

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At first, philosophy for Marcel meant a highly abstract type of thought that sought to transcend the everyday empirical world.

I will spend all of my energies fighting that type of thought, and I urge all minorities – not just Afro Americans, but all minorities – to resist this.

In an analogous fashion, philosophers often also distinguish between tokens and types of thoughts: two people may have different tokens of the same type of thought, that snow is white.

Nuala Kenny, a physician-ethicist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a critic of evidence-based medicine, defends intuitive reasoning: it isn't a lazy way of thinking, she argues, but rather a sophisticated type of thought that incorporates many variables and tremendous amounts of data from previous experience.

In his review of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (Nov. 27), Jim Holt says of the fast, intuitive type of thought, "It is System 1 that detects hostility in a voice and effortlessly completes the phrase 'bread and...'.. " But its completion isn't as automatic as Holt supposes.

This, according to Lévy-Bruhl, was a type of thought that had been common to archaic mankind, that was still common to primitives, and in which people supposedly experienced some form of "mystical participation" with the objects of their thought, rather than a separation of subject and object.

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But you have a site that cultivates these type of thoughts, and men who have this type of rage".

Although this evaluation of a query may seem complicated, it is essentially the type of thought-process naturally deployed by a human user.

Self-report studies have found that verbal mentation tends to be less specific or concrete than imagery (Stöber, 1998), associated with "what if" type of thoughts.

All of it recognises the circadian rhythms of the body, quoting such remarks as René Dubos's "the high tides of the ocean may have their counterpart in the high tides of our bloodstream" and FE Halliday's notion that certain types of thought are released by the semi-hypnotic state that verse induces.

For the last four months, I've been experimenting with a few types of thought experiments.

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