mode of thought

collocation in English

meaningsofmodeandthought

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mode
noun
uk
/məʊd/us
/moʊd/
formal
a way of operating, living, ...
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thought
noun[C or U]
uk
/θɔːt/us
/θɑːt/
the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a ...
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(Definition ofmodeandthoughtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmode of thought

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By abstracting entities from their relational context and rendering them as alienated objects, thismodeofthoughtallows things to be valorized against each other.
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What separates the romanticmodeofthoughtfrom the neo-classical, then, is not so much the goal as the way one gets there.
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This painful process of the transformation of the main character from intellectual neutrality and passivity towards active involvement reveals a very existentialistmodeofthought.
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Thismodeofthoughtis extended to include teacher - student relationships and imitations of models without direct personal contact, leading to a linear and progressive view of history.
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About one-third (319%) of men who reported a fatalisticmodeofthoughtnamed two or more warning signs as compared with about one-quarter (245%) of the men who could not.
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Specifically, it was hypothesized that men who reported a fatalisticmodeofthoughtwould be less likely to exhibit knowledge of reproductive health in the three areas examined.
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It should make the journal a continuing exposition of the integrating, value-laden, holistic, design-related, user-responsive, inventive and entirely distinctivemodeofthoughtthat is so characteristic of architects and architecture.
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The phraseology, themodeofthought, and everything else is just the same.
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It is a danger inherent in ourmodeofthought, in our natural reaction to events.
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I think thatmodeofthoughtis passing away.
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Presumption is not a very strongmodeofthoughtin the drafting of legislation.
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I was seeking to explain that at the time when we are indulging in our own little phantasy we are regressing to the most primitivemodeofthought.
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Beza, in tabular form, thoroughly elucidates the religious views which emanated from a fundamental supralapsarianmodeofthought.
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One classic example of thismodeofthoughtis that of the rooster and the sunrise.
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Her powers are presented as proof of the rightness of hermodeofthought.
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Essentialism is amodeofthoughtthat uses scientific data to argue that racial groups are genetically distinct populations.
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The flood may be equated with primordial chaos or, in a more synchronicmodeofthought, the chaos underlying the existing state of order.
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It seemed natural that the film, too should be such an exploration of a new generation person into suchmodeofthoughtand life.
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It is the onlymodeofthoughtable to give a coherent, comprehensive, and credible account of the complexity of contemporary experience.
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These shapes in which humanity is seized and moulded possess style and style-history no less than kinds of art ormodeofthought.
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