Sentence examples for virtue of thinking from inspiring English sources

Though they will utter sentences like 'It is a law that no signals travel faster than light', they are antirealists in virtue of thinking that such sentences are not (purely) fact-stating.

Continuing her exploration of human imagination, the Queen extolls the virtues of thinking about the impossible.

This potential gives rise to a separate strain of thinking about virtue.

The problem is that their denial of reality is a byproduct of a culture that marginalizes the scientific method as a way of thinking and promotes faith as a virtue, even if it is in direct opposition to the facts.

But introversion isn't mentioned regularly enough to properly challenge how deeply ingrained the virtues of extroversion are in our social behaviours and ways of thinking.

It became a best seller, as did its successor, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), which extols the untold virtues of snap judgment.

Naturalism is the mistake of thinking value terms like "good" straightforwardly denote the features in virtue of which we commend them.

For Aristotle, virtue is perfection of the human function and the Stoics follow in this line of thinking.

Independence of thinking, alongside with clear-mindedness and good faith, are the first virtues a young gentleman should acquire.

What is so nice about this picture is that if LOTH is true we have a naturalistically adequate causal treatment of thinking that respects the semantic properties of the thoughts involved: it is in virtue of the physically coded syntactic/formal features that thoughts cause each other while the coherence of their semantic properties is preserved precisely in virtue of this.

Through the years, our varied ways of thinking about the Americans who fought that war, which ended ignominiously forty years ago this week, have been characterized by tension between a sense of virtue and a sense of shame.