Oh well, at least we got this hilarious tid-bit into the vast thoughts of Shatner.
But its mesmerising power, and the vast infrastructure of thought that seeks to justify it, makes any challenge to the model almost impossible to contemplate.
We are not really rational animals; emotions play a central role in decision-making, the vast majority of thought is unconscious, and our minds are riddled with biases.
How could Dante incorporate Florentine lore, history and scandal into a work including classical and pagan legends, drama and allegory, vast categories of thought, making a transcendent yet personal whole?
The author makes clear that his choice of books is representative and not necessarily definitive: They are meant to be "nodal points, places where vast areas of thought and feeling gathered and dispersed," and within each chapter he brings up related works.
The range of possibilities is vast, with too little thought given to which models work best.
But there were also high hopes, fuelled by the thought of vast quantities of underused brainpower and raw materials that were now joining the world economy.
He sets the intimate biography of a young cleric against the vast epic of Iranian thought from Zoroaster to Avicenna, Kasravi to Khomeini.
While working "Jazz," his famous 1947 suite of cutouts, Matisse's ambitions for the work grew in scope; the cutouts became more sculptural and more vast, like satellites of thought.
The focus of the following outline is William's views on metaphysics and the soul, but even within these limits the vast range of his thought has required that many issues in these areas not be treated.
