Sagan describes his parents ' influence on his later thinking:

In it, he puts forth a new theory about the nature of space and describes how this theory influences thinking about architecture, building, planning, and the way in which we view the world in general.

It is an ancient textbook on surgery almost completely devoid of magical thinking and describes in exquisite detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments.

Deirdre Barrett describes dreaming as simply " thinking in different biochemical state " and believes people continue to work on all the same problems — personal and objective — in that state.

In the humanities and in the social sciences, the term discourse describes a formal way of thinking that can be expressed through language, a social boundary that defines what can be said about a specific topic ; as Judith Butler said, “ the limits of acceptable speech ”, the limits of possible truth.

Contemporarily, the terms " bourgeoisie " and " bourgeois " identify the ruling class in capitalist societies, as a social stratum ; while " bourgeois " describes the Weltanschauung ( worldview ) of men and women whose way of thinking is socially and culturally determined by their economic materialism and philistinism, a social identity catalogued and described in drame bourgeois ( bourgeois drama ), which satirizes buying the trappings of a noble-birth identity as the means climbing the social ladder.

Xenophon evocatively describes Epaminondas's thinking: " led forward his army prow on, like a trireme, believing that if he could strike and cut through anywhere, he would destroy the entire army of his adversaries.

In contrast to authors who identify language and cognition, he describes his own mathematical thinking as largely wordless, often accompanied by mental images that represent the entire solution to a problem.

In his book, the journalist-turned-novelist describes that Yi deliberately stood at the front of his ship in his final battle making himself a target for Japanese gunmen, thinking that ending his life in this honorable fashion could be better than facing another political ploys which was likely to wait him in the Joseon royal court after the war.

A geometrical way of thinking about general relativity describes the effects of the gravity in the real world four dimensional space geometrically by projecting that space into a five dimensional superspace with the fifth dimension corresponding to the curvature in spacetime that is produced by gravity and gravity-like effects in general relativity.

It describes individuals and groups working in diverse disciplines who have crafted creative solutions to various environmental and socio-cultural problems rooted in shared core values, including whole systems, ( anticipatory ) thinking, a view of all life as interdependent, and sustainable mutual aid.

In the fields of philosophy and æsthetics, the term philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect ; ‘ the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine ’.

He also describes himself as " not very good in thinking around corners ", meaning he has a very practical character, never really seeking other meanings or intentions behind what he sees, although he is very perceptive and intelligent.

While he upholds what he calls the great achievements of these revolutions and what he claims they have proven in terms of the possibility of people being able to create a better world, at the same time Avakian has been developing new thinking which he characterizes as real ruptures with elements of the past understanding and experience, a synthesis which he describes as reviving the " viability and, yes, the desirability of a whole new and radically different world, and placing this on an ever firmer foundation of materialism and dialectics … a source of hope and of daring on a solid scientific foundation.

* Schizophrenia, a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction.

However, connectionism stresses the possibility of thinking machines, most often realized as neural networks, an inter-connectional set of nodes, and describes mental states as able to create memory by modifying the strength of these connections over time.

The historical review describes how, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mechanised industrial production raised " the living standards of the average human being very greatly ", and that it became " clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared.

His thinking is eurocentric, and he describes Christianity as a gift to Europe, which it alone could deserve.

Scheler describes the essence of philosophical thinking as " a love-determined movement of the inmost personal self of a finite being toward participation in the essential reality of all possibles.

As the narration describes in chapter 1 about the naming of Don Quixote's steed, " Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because ( as he said to himself ) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was.

Jones elaborates that Lefebvre ’ s take on the Revolution has three major roles, which he describes as the active pursuit of the French country to partake in the Revolution, that such participation was not influenced by the bourgeoisie, and that the peasants agreed on their anticapitalist way of thinking, that resulted in their way of thinking in the 1790s.

Zumthor ’ s Vals spa recounts the thinking he describes in his essay, making appeals to all the senses.

Current research on the connection between the two seers Max Heindel and Rudolf Steiner describes that " he felt that what Steiner was doing was not appropriate for America where pragmatism and clear linear thinking is predominant " and " that he did not find what he was looking for there ( a Western oriented spirituality that was accessible to the general public )".

In these latter cases the faiths do not promote deference, as happens in monotheisms ; rather each suggests a path of action that will bring the practitioner into conformance with the divine law: ahimsa — ' no harm ' — for Buddhist and Hindu faiths ; de or te — ' virtuous action ' — in daoism ; and any of numerous practices of peace and love in new age thinking.

We also switch to critical thinking when trying to deal with unusual situations or in cases where the intuitive moral rules give conflicting advice.

Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th-century musical thought ; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it.

Interestingly, in some cases sufferers may be left with false or delusional memories after delirium, basing their memories on the confused thinking or sensory distortion which occurred during the episode of delirium.

Perhaps the greatest barrier to a paradigm shift, in some cases, is the reality of paradigm paralysis: the inability or refusal to see beyond the current models of thinking.

Such a distribution will be normal ( central limit theorem except in pathological cases, since – in a slightly non-obvious way of thinking about it – the trend is a linear combination of the y < sub > t </ sub >) and, if the series genuinely is random, centered on zero.

A review of parricide cases that include factors other than delusional thinking such as a history of sexual abuse or fraud committed by the son against the family has been published in the forensic literature.

In these cases when scenario planning is integrated with a systems thinking approach to scenario development, it is sometimes referred to as structural dynamics.

In both cases it connotes the principle of differentiation which is implicit in human thinking.

The number of close votes in cases involving these areas suggests that a change of one or two key justices could completely shift the thinking of the Court on such issues.

Universal precriptivism combines these two methods of thinking, combining evaluative judgments ( which commit us to making similar judgments about similar cases ) and precription and condemnation when the judgment is at last made.

His knowledge and insights are often helpful on difficult cases and his calm and logical thinking are a blessing in crisis situations.

The book highlights campaigns that build brands with “ transformative ideas ”, with cases arranged according to five areas of focus: “ Unleashing human viruses ”; “ reinvigorating businesses and brands ”; “ thinking bigger than the business ”; “ targeting the new consumer ” and “ compelling change .”

There is much wishful thinking in attribution of drug effect, particularly in cases like schizophrenia, where there no longer exists a patient user control group available.

In some cases, they are aware that the owner is thinking of abandoning them before the deed is done.

Aes Sedai do not allow Novices and Accepted ( except in very rare cases ) to go on field assignments, thinking they need to be protected until they are fully trained.

While these cases exist, thoughts of death have since been compared to various aversive experimental controls, such as ( but not limited to ) thinking about: failure, writing a critical exam, public speaking with a considerable audience, being excluded, paralysis, dental pain, intense physical pain, etc.

As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.

The press conference became a stage which betrayed the drift of his private thinking, rather than his convictions.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.

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

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

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.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

he made fresh coffee and searched through all the desk drawers for more cigarettes before thinking of her handbag, and found a crumpled stray cigarette at its bottom, which tasted peculiarly of face powder.

Alexander guessed that they had planned confusion and turmoil, thinking it the ideal climate in which to begin battle and bloodshed.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

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.

In 1956, he applied the same thinking to the Riemann – Roch theorem, which had already recently been generalized to any dimension by Hirzebruch.

Steiner believed results of this form of spiritual research should be expressed in a way that can be understood and evaluated on the same basis as the results of natural science: " The anthroposophical schooling of thinking leads to the development of a non-sensory, or so-called supersensory consciousness, whereby the spiritual researcher brings the experiences of this realm into ideas, concepts, and expressive language in a form which people can understand who do not yet have the capacity to achieve the supersensory experiences necessary for individual research.

Steiner believed in the possibility of applying the clarity of scientific thinking to spiritual experience, which he saw as deriving from an objectively existing spiritual world.

Steiner identified mathematics, which attains certainty through thinking itself, thus through inner experience rather than empirical observation, as the basis of his epistemology of spiritual experience.

methodology is to employ a scientific way of thinking, but to apply this methodology, which normally excludes our inner experience from consideration, instead to the human being proper.

Its development is likely to have been closely connected with the development of human language, which ( whether spoken or written ) appears to both involve and facilitate abstract thinking.

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

"... One major contribution of AI and cognitive science to psychology has been the information processing model of human thinking in which the metaphor of brain-as-computer is taken quite literally.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

" Unlike utilitarianism, which views pleasure as a moral good, " the basic goods in Mohist consequentialist thinking are ... order, material wealth, and increase in population ".