I feel that they are closely related to logic and common sense in that you either have them or you don't. ... However, with decision making and critical thinking one is not learning a new skill, it is simply a honing of logic and common sense. ...
It is a natural instinct to think logically, to have common sense. ... But doubting that what he said could happen would kill the sense for reason and faith. ... Denis; it seemed to have made sense that he was insane. ... The doctor is not crazy and has an ideological sense of his surroundings and the possibilities of life. ... The doctor unwilling develops an impossible sense of differentiating reason and his faith. ...
In a setting like that of New York City, it may be very common to see individuals that are only focused on how they can survive in a society in which selfish tendencies are instilled. ... In de Waal's essay he states that "Charles Darwin...had warned in The Origin of the Species: " I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another" (650). ... This common goal for unity was sadly accomplished through devastating actions against the city, but nonetheless it brought the people of New York together. ... Even though Septe...
There are many shapes and sizes of people that follow a mass movement, but according to Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer, all the people have some peculiarities in common with one another. ... It has been observed that the common crime level decreases when a mass movement is in effect. ... It gives the criminal a sense of self worth. ... A common hatred can unite people even if they were foes to begin with. Hoffer says, "To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance." ...
You don't look a bit like you have common blood. ... How can she tell, simply by looking at him, that he doesn't have "common blood"? ... When they are driving, the grandmother says, with no sense of wrong-doing, "Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!" ... She is ashamed and embarrassed by June Star, yet expresses no sense of personal shame with her comment about the black child with no pants. ... He proves himself to have some sense of moral decency and respect. ...
However, case study is a relatively weak method in the sense that gives little ground for making generalizations on other people. ... I investigated life histories of many people, and tried to find regularities between them, so that I could classify and organize them in such a way that it would make sense. ...
Hyde," he takes us on a journey through the stages of addiction, revealing the mental processes, causes, and effects of the extraordinarily common, yet potentially dangerous syndrome of addiction. ... The action simply gives the user a sense of freedom and happiness. ... Jekyll still enjoyed the benefits of becoming Hyde during this stage, but Hyde was forced to commit more and more heinous acts to give Jekyll the same sense of freedom. ...
Through competition man gains validity and a false sense of honor. ... Racism is exhibited by ignorant, sad little people who are unable to find virtues within themselves that make them superior in some sense. ... Unrealized potential is the most common deficiency displayed by man. ... This is not real happiness because it does not add a sense of fulfillment to man's life. ...
Although, we believe in whatever is visible to us and what we can sense, we cannot rely on our senses either because, they are imperfect and are based on how we as an individual's see things not how they truly are. ... Plato illustrates "Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are two kind and arise for two causes, either from coming out of the light of going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye" (212). ... The darkness is an analogy for our eyes not being able to see in the dark how things physically are because sight is a se...
When evaluating options illogically, one uses their emotions as a shortcut to common sense. ... It is really difficult for someone abused to comprehend the prospect of what they are losing, a sense of self worth gone astray, or perhaps even have been manipulated into believing that they deserve to be treated badly. ...
But he makes clear that at his immediate disposal is a fund of common sense he does not hesitate to bring into play.... We need to start caring more about other important issues and less about the cybernetic world, but most importantly, we need to have a bit of the Beat inside: the rebellious opened minded way of thinking, the nonconformist attitude towards things that are wrong or unfair, your own judgment ignoring bias, and the sense of humour....
Despite their differences, however, all have one thing in common: an overwhelmingly optimistic vision for the future. ... This ambiguity heightens our sense of curiosity. ... On a different level, this also offers to us the idea that the mind is the only constant throughout life: while the tangible body ages and decays, the spirit remains the common denominator that makes each and every one of us an individual. ...
This method of study is called inductive reasoning: observing as many examples as possible and then, based on these observations, working out a basic principle they have in common. ... Today, the word means the study of weather, but he used it in a more general sense and included "all the affections we may call common to air and water and all kinds and parts of earth and the affections of its parts....
So there is no objective reality in the novel, and the reader cannot say for sure that a character is like this or that, but he has to rely on the novel´s character´s impressions and on his sense of sympathy. ... Thereby Virginia Woolf uses connecting devices like the common past of certain characters, or public events attended by several characters, in order to procure for the reader an insight into how each character experiences a certain issue, and what their respective thoughts on the occurring issues are. ...
Throughout the novel, a common theme of self-centeredness continually arises. ... Doctors gave two year old Kayla Resendez only a slim chance of coming out of a coma, but then one Monday morning, at a Stanford Medical Center, Kayla awoke to good health and shocked the doctors and brought a new sense of life to her family.8 If her parents would have listened to these doctors, they would no longer have a little daughter, in which to play with. ...
In Thoreau's eyes, it is a common misconception that people think and believe what they are seeing is real. ... Last but not least, author Annie Dillard's essay "Sight into Insight," also demonstrates the same idea by encouraging her readers to not see things with their naked eyes but with their minds in a sense of feeling their surroundings. ...
Death as a Recurring Theme in Sula There are several ways in which one can classify death. Death is not solely viewed as being physiological; it too can be viewed as being spiritual, emotional, as well as psychological. Spiritual death is the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability o...
They will do deeper research, often challenging their current beliefs to see if there is something else out in the world that makes more sense. ... These type of conversations usually do not end on a common note, and often result in more debate and pointless arguing. ...
