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.

In the meantime, we might be thinking on the problem all these dead beasts represent.

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.

One can answer the question, is someone asleep less conscious than someone thinking about a difficult problem.

On-sighting is a form of adventure climbing emphasizing the skills of route finding, quick thinking and problem solving.

* Exploring possibilities and constraints by focusing critical thinking skills to research and define problem spaces for existing products or services — or the creation of new categories ; ( see also Brainstorming )

This is also a global way of thinking about the problem.

* Strong emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking

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.

One way of thinking about the Ship of Theseus problem is as follows: It is a question that is not receivable because of the mismatch between the domain of the question and the domain of the subject matter it is applied to.

These pictorial methods record knowledge and model systems, and a long history in learning, brainstorming, memory, visual thinking, and problem solving by educators, engineers, psychologists, and others.

Those favorable outcomes are due to better decision making processes, such as flexible thinking, creative problem solving, respect for others ' perspectives, willingness to take risks and higher confidence.

The paradox is commonly attributed to the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described it in 1823, but Harrison shows convincingly that Olbers was far from the first to pose the problem, nor was his thinking about it particularly valuable.

Thus, Lezek took him to a local hiring fair, hoping that Mort would land an apprenticeship with some tradesman ; not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity towards thinking someone else's problem.

After World War II, Classical scholar Jacqueline de Romilly pointed out that the problem of Athenian imperialism was one of Thucydides ' central preoccupations and situated his history in the context of Greek thinking about international politics.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Psychologists have concentrated on thinking as an intellectual exertion aimed at finding an answer to a question or the solution of a practical problem.

Possibly the most famous bug is the Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K bug, in which it was feared that worldwide economic collapse would happen at the start of the year 2000 as a result of computers thinking it was 1900.

He turned some original thinking on the problem of succeeding in acquiring the site when all others had failed.

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 principal trainer acts as a facilitator who uses a high percentage of open questions to allow the participants to reflect critically on their own way of thinking, feeling, or behaving in a given context-usually involving a problem or desired outcome-and guiding participants to form the conclusion or an axiom / principle / belief through their own efforts, potentially highlighting dissonance, conflicts of thought and actions with questions for further discussion.

* problem solving about situations that initiate negative thinking

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

The authors noted an apparent superior efficacy of olanzapine to the other drugs in terms of reduction in psychopathology and rate of hospitalizations, but olanzapine was associated with relatively severe metabolic effects such as a major weight gain problem ( averaging over 18 months ) and increases in glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides.

Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.

David Chalmers has argued that A-consciousness can in principle be understood in mechanistic terms, but that understanding P-consciousness is much more challenging: he calls this the hard problem of consciousness.

" Difficult ", in this sense, is described in terms of the computational resources needed by the most efficient algorithm for a certain problem.

As terms of the form λ < sub > i </ sub > – ∑ ( multiples of other eigenvalues ) occurs in the denominator of the terms for the function h, the non-resonant condition is also known as the small divisor problem.

In other words, the general problem of Diophantine analysis is blessed or cursed with universality, and in any case is not something that will be solved except by re-expressing it in other terms.

In the classical interpretation, probability was defined in terms of the principle of indifference, based on the natural symmetry of a problem, so, e. g. the probabilities of dice games arise from the natural symmetric 6-sidedness of the cube.

The fundamental problem is that the last four terms ( fraction of planets with life, odds life becomes intelligent, odds intelligent life becomes detectable, and detectable lifetime of civilizations ) are completely unknown.

Although the statement of the theory in terms of graphs may imply perturbation theory, use of graphical methods in the many-body problem shows that this formalism is flexible enough to deal with phenomena of nonperturbative characters ...

Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.

At this stage in the algorithm, it is required that terms with zero-valued coefficients are dropped, so that only binary coefficients equal to one are counted, thus the problem of multiplication or division by zero is not an issue, despite this implication in the factored equation:

A kludge ( or kluge ) is a workaround, a quick-and-dirty solution, a clumsy, inelegant, difficult to extend, hard to maintain yet effective and quick solution to a problem, and a rough synonym to the terms " jury rig ", " Jugaad " or " jerry rig ".

He wrote extensively about this in terms of the problem of alienation.

Bacon decried the decision, commenting: " I don't get it, when I see films ( that ) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on.

Another problem was that universal claims ( e. g. "( all ) philosophers are mortal ") are problematic in terms of verification.

" Putnam argues that introducing this dichotomy of observational terms and theoretical terms is the problem from which to start.

So in the simplest terms before getting deep into the matter at hand, the paradox exposes this base inherent problem:

These formal terms are manipulated by the rules of mathematics and logic, and any results are interpreted or translated back into the problem domain.

Like most proofs of the PNT, it starts out by reformulating the problem in terms of a less intuitive, but better-behaved, prime-counting function.