- The act or practice of one that thinks; thought.
- A way of reasoning; judgment: To my thinking, this is not a good idea.
Characterized by thought or thoughtfulness; rational: We are thinking animals.
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adjective
| Antonyms: thinking |
Definition: intelligent
Antonyms: irrational, stupid
| Dental Dictionary: thinking |
1. the cognitive process of forming mental images or concepts. 2. the process of cognitive problem solving through the sorting, organizing, and classification of facts and relationships.
| Philosophy Dictionary: thinking |
It is common to suppose that people are characterized by their rationality, and the most evident display of our rationality is our capacity to think. This is the rehearsal in the mind of what to say, or what to do. Not all thinking is verbal, since chess players, composers, and painters all think, and there is no a priori reason that their deliberations should take any more verbal a form than their actions. It is permanently tempting to conceive of this activity in terms of the presence in the mind of elements of some language, or other medium that represent aspects of the world (see language of thought hypothesis, ideas). But the model has been attacked, notably by Wittgenstein, as insufficient, since no such presence could carry a guarantee that the right use would be made of it. And such an inner presence seems unnecessary, since an intelligent outcome might arise in principle without it. See also animal thought.
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When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
— Plato (427-347 BC), Greek philosopher.
| Translations: Thinking |
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tænkende
n. - tanker, mening
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Nederlands (Dutch)
het (na)denken, denkwijze, denkwerk, verstandig
Français (French)
adj. - réfléchi, intellectuel
n. - réflexion, pensée, travail intellectuel, opinion
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Auffassung, Denken, Kopfarbeit
adj. - vernünftig, rational
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σκέψη, συλλογιστική
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Italiano (Italian)
lavoro intellettuale
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - pensamento (m)
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Español (Spanish)
adj. - pensante, que piensa, de pensar
n. - pensamientos, modo de ver, opinión, parecer, meditación, reflexión
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Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tänkande, tänkesätt, åsikt, uppfattning
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
思考的, 有理性的, 思考, 思想
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中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 思考的, 有理性的
n. - 思考, 思想
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한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 생각하는, 사고력 있는 , 사상이 있는
n. - 생각함, 궁리, 의견
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日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 考える, 思考力のある, 理性のある
n. - 考えること, 思考, 思索, 意見
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العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) تفكير, فكرة
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - חושב, הוגה
n. - חשיבה, מחשבה, דעה
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