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People have been speculating about this question forever.
He found that they were resistant to deducing the hypothetical, to speculating about what might be, and he found finally that they didn't deal well with abstractions or using logic on those abstractions.
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's been a spate of books that have come out lately contemplating or speculating on the cognition and emotional life of dogs.
That's because Kepler-186f orbits a red star, and we're just speculating that perhaps the plants there, if there is vegetation that does photosynthesis, it has different pigments and looks red.
Well, if you look in textbooks today that deal with human evolution, you very often find people speculating about how early humans may have behaved, based on the behavior of chimpanzees.
And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be geysers, and erupting from pockets or chambers of liquid water underneath the surface, but we weren't really sure.
Celebrity singers have always had a tough time breaking into the movies (the cinema is littered with failed attempts), and one can go on and on speculating why John Mellencamp never made it big as an actor.
I've read that Paolo Sorrintino's inspiration for The Consequences of Love came from simply observing a businessman alone in a Brazilian hotel, and speculating what he might be doing there.
it may have been for rating reasons at the time of the release of the 'Gladiator' big studios movie, I am just speculating.
He overhears a radio report that the Russians are moving in, speculating that WWII should be over soon.
As for content, The Beach raises deep issues on how we deal with our own existence, experience, sanity and commitments to other people: there did seem to be more noble purpose than just speculating in the emotions of the viewer.
Instead of giving serious consideration to unfounded theories speculating that excessively low interest rates could, under certain conditions, discourage growth and investment, the Fed should have committed itself even more decisively to zero or even negative rates.
With Sanders now polling well ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire, serious commentators have begun speculating that Americans will ultimately be asked to choose between Sanders and Trump.
Though a small group of collectors invests speculatively in antique or specialty cars, the idea of speculating in automobiles just is not in the public consciousness.
Many are speculating that the “pink tide” of populism, which has pushed the region to the left over the last 15 years, now is turning.
Already, commentators are speculating on how long the new parliament will survive.
In sum, the lesson of the new economy is not that one becomes rich without any effort, simply by speculating on the stock market.
They joked darkly about being forced to wear blue stars on their clothes, speculating that the 1990s could one day be seen as an Anglo-Saxon version of Germany’s ill-fated Weimar period.
The Banks that Ate the EconomyLONDON – Bank of England Governor Mark Carney surprised his audience at a conference late last year by speculating that banking assets in London could grow to more than nine times Britain’s GDP by 2050.
In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression.
If businesses and savers were to start speculating about the next exit, trust in the common currency would soon vanish.
Vast amounts of short-term capital, speculating on interest rate convergence or equity market gains, are flowing into the most advanced candidate countries, driving up their currencies and increasing their vulnerability to a sudden capital-flow reversal.
The experts I interviewed at the time were speculating that porn use was desensitizing healthy young men to the erotic appeal of their own partners.
In Europe, by contrast, sudden large influxes of political and economic refugees from the Middle East and Africa have had stronger political effects, with many experts speculating that Brexit was more about migration to Britain than about bureaucracy in Brussels.
Nietzsche thought hard about how his new politics might come about, speculating that a growing threat from Russia could spur unification.
The entire world is speculating about what will happen, and, depending on who has appointments at Trump Tower that day, the mood oscillates between concern and panic.
I once wrote a book that tried to test the importance of leaders by examining important turning points in the creation a century ago of the “American era” and speculating about what might have happened had the president’s most plausible contender been in his place instead.
Thus, they were protected against the downside risk of falling house prices and profited by speculating on the upside risk of appreciation.
American households will need to learn to accumulate wealth by cutting consumption rather than speculating on real estate.
In 1933, the US Glass-Steagall Act stopped commercial bank proprietors from speculating with their customers’ deposits.