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But people who explain intentional behavior have several choices to make, and the theory identifies the psychological antecedents and consequences of these choices: ( a ) giving either reason explanations or " causal history of reason ( CHR ) explanations " ( which refer to background factors such as culture, personality, or context — causal factors that brought about the agent's reasons but were not themselves reasons to act ); ( b ) giving either desire reasons or belief reasons ; and ( c ) linguistically marking a belief reason with its mental state verb ( e. g., " She thought that ..."; " He assumes that ...").
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people and who
After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??
those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.
The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.
The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.
Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.
The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.
But, for practical purposes, we have people who can be considered as such.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??
There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.
The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.
In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.
One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.
To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.
people and explain
Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.
And this helps explain why so many people are now going camping.
For example, some contemporary writing tends to fuse the `` good guys '' and the `` bad guys '', to portray the weak people as heroes and weakness as a virtue, and to explain ( or even justify ) asocial behavior by attributing it to deterministic psychological, familial, and social experiences.
This may explain why anxious people are less likely to die due to accidents.
The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.
One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.
While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.
The subsequent conferences have resulted in a move to more interdisciplinary approaches with researchers aiming to combine the contextuality of archaeological research, which broadly describes the state of archaeoastronomy today, rather than merely establishing the existence of ancient astronomies archaeoastronomers seek to explain why people would have an interest in the night sky.
The influence of such persons may reflect a heightened spiritual consciousness, or may simply represent people attempting to explain the world as best they could given the tools of the time.
Commission members have traveled throughout the country and to Eritrean communities abroad holding meetings to explain constitutional options to the people and to solicit their input.
Educational psychologists have used dual coding theory and cognitive load theory to explain how people learn from multimedia presentations.
:* Investigative journalism – writing which seeks to add extra information to explain, or better describe the people and events of a particular topic.
These mean, respectively, how people understand themselves to be able to be in a right relationship with supernatural powers, and how to explain evil-or why bad things seem to happen to those who seem to be good people ".
Abinadi then continues to explain that the Law of Moses is a teaching method to prepare people for the coming of Jesus Christ.
He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.
Such arguments typically claim that the relationship between a particular and its form is very intelligible and easily grasped ; that people unproblematically apply Platonic theory in everyday life ; and that the inherence criticism is only created by the artificial demand to explain the normal understanding of inherence as if it were highly problematic.
* Attributional style theory dealing with different ways in which people explain events in their lives.
* 2007: According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, " Myth: " 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.
Jus naturale was a concept the jurists developed to explain why all people seemed to obey some laws.
Sargon claimed that his people had seeded their species throughout the galaxy, and Spock said that could explain some enigmas of Vulcan pre-history.
This similarity might explain how some people have come up with the idea of telepathy.
" Weber argued that, as human society became increasingly rational, the need to explain why good people suffered and evil people prospered became more important because religion casts the world as a " meaningful cosmos ".
He identified two purposes of theodicy: to explain why good people suffer ( a theodicy of suffering ), and why people prosper ( a theodicy of good fortune ).
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