directedness

"I see a directedness and a man of purpose," said Watson.

Why, most novelists are vain about their incoherence, their lack of directedness.

Maturity emphasizes a clear comprehension of life's purpose, directedness, and intentionality which contributes to the feeling that life is meaningful.

"A therapist, he says, looks for 'coherence, directedness, and bearability.'

"Deaf mutes have a very telegraphic way of speaking, a fierce directedness with no elegant embroidery," he said.

A few salient juxtapositions would confer upon words a new relational potency over and above their semantic directedness to the external world.

Note that this result depends on the directedness condition; a set indexed by a general preorder or partial order may have distinct limit points even in a Hausdorff space.

It fails to account for the passage of time, the pre-eminence of the present, the directedness of time and the difference between the future and the past"

The pioneer of neurodynamics, cognitive neuroscientist Walter Freeman, considers the work of Thomas important in remodeling intentionality, the directedness of the mind toward what it is aware of.

"The Directedness of Reasoning and the Metaphysics of Creation," in Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (eds.)

He contends that the State's patronage and intervention can alone bring a sense of directedness and unity of purpose, failing which the only practicable way is mercantile competition, with its dreary, ruthless consequences.

The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought-intentionality-for example, while scarcely mentioned in Being and Time, has been identified by some with Heidegger's central notion of "Sorge" (Cura, care or concern).

He is a doctor of philosophical sciences (dissertation on the methodological and procedural issues of sociological research of the influence of the scientific technological revolution on personality directedness of an industrial worker; defended in Kyiv in 1987).

Staplehurst felt "The Gauntlet" to be more "restricted in scope" than the first part of the series and disliked its linear play and directedness, commenting that he "found the amount of chanelling and character manipulation off-putting and at times frustrating".

Autism is a very profound cognitive deficit indeed, and everything that I have said up to now entails that a person whose thinking significantly lacks an holistic character, and lacks the related qualities of directedness, inhibition and co-ordination, will be profoundly affected.

Galtung suggests that the individualistic survey method may well yield results that reflect conditions prevailing in one type of society only, that is societies which rate highly both on individual mobility, geographic, horizontal as well as vertical mobility, and on inner- directedness.

This and other knowledge of forces transforming the way we understood the idea of money and society in the 20th century may determine how the will and directedness of the demographics shaping the M-society of today will lay the launchpad buy the advantages to catapult the next generation further higher on the ascending curve.

It fails to account for the passage of time, the pre-eminence of the present, the directedness of time and the difference between the future and the past" and in favour of a tree structure in which there is only one past or present (at any given point in spacetime) but a large number of possible futures.