I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.

It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.

He knows that he is thinking about action in relation to a future which can be perceived but dimly through a merciful fog.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Freeman, Cameron and McGhie, in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients, say, in regard to condensation, that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment, and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation ''.

It is simply revealing the state to which metaphysical thinking has fallen during this century.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The waves are separated by intervals of 15 minutes to an hour or more ( because of their great length ), and this has often lulled people into thinking after the first great wave has crashed that it is all over.

He declared the government is thinking of asking for foreign troops if the situation worsens.

Furthermore, as an encouragement to revisionist thinking, it manifestly is fair to admit that any fraternity has a constitutional right to refuse to accept persons it dislikes.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

When thinking about orbitals, we are often given an orbital vision which ( even if it is not spelled out ) is heavily influenced by this Hartree – Fock approximation, which is one way to reduce the complexities of molecular orbital theory.

Animism in the widest sense, i. e., thinking of objects as animate, and treating them as if they were animate, is near-universal.

: To continue to select and reinforce the often less dominant " good use ", it is recommended to repeatedly suggest, by thinking to oneself, a tailored series of " Orders " or " Directions.

" " Giving Directions " is the term for thinking and projecting an anatomically ideal map of how one's body may be used effortlessly.

Its goal is to effect enough change in the alcoholic's thinking " to bring about recovery from alcoholism " through a spiritual awakening.

Steiner hoped to form a spiritual movement that would free the individual from any external authority: " The most important problem of all human thinking is this: to comprehend the human being as a personality grounded in him or herself.

Steiner added to this the conception that a further step in the development of thinking is possible when the thinker observes his or her own thought processes.

Each day he found himself thinking less often of Ann ; ;

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

The critical step of finding a mapping between the problem and a pre-existing schema is often cited as supporting the centrality of analogical thinking to problem solving.

Leocadia was left nothing in Goya's will ; mistresses were often omitted in such circumstances, but it is also likely that he did not want to dwell on his mortality by thinking about or revising his will.

Throughout his academic career Singer has written frequently in the mainstream press, including the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, often striking up positions that go against mainstream thinking.

The tradition is often characterised as an orthopraxy ( correct practice ) rather than an orthodoxy ( correct thinking ), with adherents placing greater emphasis on a shared body of practices as opposed to faith.

Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.

while also suggesting that claims of evidence for reincarnation originate from selective thinking and from the false memories that often result from one's own belief system and basic fears, and thus cannot be counted as empirical evidence.

A person diagnosed with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations ( most reported are hearing voices ), delusions ( often bizarre or persecutory in nature ), and disorganized thinking and speech.

William James's version of pragmatic theory, while complex, is often summarized by his statement that " the ' true ' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the ' right ' is only the expedient in our way of behaving.

The well-known aphorism, " A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems ", is probably due to Alfréd Rényi, although it is often attributed to Rényi's colleague Paul Erdős ( and Rényi may have been thinking of Erdős ), who was famous for the many theorems he produced, the number of his collaborations, and his coffee drinking.

He is portrayed as Zippy's total opposite, often dressed in a conservative suit, thinking sequentially and avoiding his brother's penchant for non-sequiturs.

It is sold as an over-the-counter formulation, and often is marketed and labeled as niacin, thus misleading consumers into thinking they are getting the active form of the medication.

The nature of circular polarization and its relationship to other polarizations is often understood by thinking of the electric field as being divided into two components which are at right angles to each other.

Explaining reason from this direction: human thinking is special in the way that we often understand visible things as if they were themselves images of our intelligible " objects of thought " as " foundations " ( hypothēses in Ancient Greek ).

Given to Graham with the working title " Ballet for Martha ," it was named by her for the scenario she had in mind, though Copland often said he was thinking of neither Appalachia nor Spring while he wrote it.

In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates defines the misanthrope in relation to his fellow man: " Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable ... and when it happens to someone often ... he ends up ... hating everyone.

The term ' magical thinking ' in anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science refers to causal reasoning often involving associative thinking, such as the perceived ability of the mind to affect the physical world ( see the philosophical problem of mental causation ) or correlation mistaken for materialist causation.

The primary goal of the Socratic method in the law school setting is not to answer usually unanswerable questions, but to explore the contours of often difficult legal issues and to teach students the critical thinking skills they will need as lawyers.