 | Patrick Barwise, Seán Meehan - 2004 - 238 lapas
...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them."" What is true of civilization as a whole is also true of us as individuals: We advance partly by increasing... | |
 | Manfred R. Schroeder - 2004 - 420 lapas
...agreeable or noisome, are surely waiting in the wings. 3. Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification Civilization advances by extending the number of important...operations which we can perform without thinking. Alfred North Whitehead If anything can go wrong, it will. Murphy's Law In this chapter we discuss,... | |
 | Bruce Koerber - 2005 - 72 lapas
...statement attributed to the British mathematician and metaphysician Alfred Whitehead, as quoted by Hayek, "Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them."[¿] The divine economy is inseparable from human civilization, nor is it separable from the advancement... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - 2005 - 312 lapas
...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." This is of profound significance in the social field. We make constant use of formulas, symbols and... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 378 lapas
...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." This is of profound significance in the social field. We make constant use of formulas, symbols and... | |
 | David Allen - 2004 - 196 lapas
...constantly bother you. It will drain your time and your mind. If you're having trouble getCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number,... | |
 | Edward Feser - 2006 - 21 lapas
...action over millennia, rather than human design in one generation. He was fond of quoting AN Whitehead: "Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them" (Hayek 1960, p. 22). Hayek's reformulation of the nature of knowledge in human societies using the... | |
 | Manish Parashar, Salim Hariri - 2018 - 568 lapas
...Conclusion ...............................................................................................17 "Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them." Said by mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead almost a century ago, this statement today... | |
 | Sanford Schram, Brian Caterino - 2006 - 313 lapas
...(Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen 2000, 30). The Modularity of the Brain Alfred North Whitehead said that "Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them" (1911, 61). Whitehead's formula may be too tidy, but empirical evidence demonstrates that implicit... | |
 | Kas Oosterhuis, Lukas Feireiss - 2006 - 620 lapas
...Georg Flachbart mindi21lfactory. Stuttgart, Germany Part one - Living in the age of the global net 'Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them' This quote by the famous mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead implies that a threshold... | |
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending... 
