practical wisdom

collocation in English

meaningsofpracticalandwisdom

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practical
adjective
uk
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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wisdom
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwɪz.dəm/us
/ˈwɪz.dəm/
the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandwisdomfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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On the other hand, religiousness, spirituality and mystical experiences did not relate topracticalwisdom.
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Practicalwisdomemphasises cognition and the pragmatics of daily living, advice and action.
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As expected, mysticism was not related topracticalwisdomamong the older adults.
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The results predictingpracticalwisdomyielded no significant effects for any of the variables related to religious, spiritual or mystical experiences or for the interaction terms.
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For chemical artisans, chemistry entailed a set of often tacit, applied skills andpracticalwisdomdirected toward material success in fields ranging from dying to mining and metallurgy.
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This kind of self-knowledge conferspracticalwisdom, tolerance, and compassion and thus influences how the individual so enriched judges other people and other situations.
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Missing ispracticalwisdom(phronesis), the ordering virtue that discerns how the virtues can be used to best effect.
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Its virtues include an emphasis onpracticalwisdomfound in good science and good parenting and on the various contexts for ethical decisionmaking.
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But the fact that this work has not been finished does not mean that there is no account ofpracticalwisdomthat is not unobjectionably elitist.
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Thepracticalwisdomor phronesis regularly achieved is more inductive and particular than deductive and generic, but valuable nonetheless.
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The contribution is an excellent example ofpracticalwisdomemanating from high quality research counterpointed with a firm advocacy free from overwrought rhetoric.
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Conceivably also, the growing opportunities for formal education depreciate the perceived value of older people's accumulated knowledge, and their reputation forpracticalwisdomis undermined.
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Equipped with the combination ofpracticalwisdomand the virtues, we would "see" what should be done and then desire to act accordingly.
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That is, one feature of redemptive possibility is that neither excellent habits norpracticalwisdom is required in order to find the morally right way to act.
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Aristotle'spracticalwisdomstill had room for maxims.
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How yourpracticalwisdom, which at times borders on a love of violence for its own sake, challenges my intermittent pacifism, which borders on cowardice.
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Drawing from the literature, as discussed, it was hypothesised that religious/spiritual practice, and religious/spiritual and mystical experiences, are positively associated with transcendent wisdom but not withpracticalwisdom.
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It is therefore reasonable that the presented analyses find that religiousness or spirituality is more relevant forpracticalwisdomamong young adults, and for transcendent wisdom among older adults.
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Such 'practicalwisdom' refers to the knowledge of how to behave in each particular situation that every competent person has.
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Whilst acknowledging that the term does not translate exactly, he offers the notion of prudence or 'practicalwisdom'.
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