Literary notes about processes (AI summary)
The term "processes" in literature serves as a versatile concept representing both tangible sequences and abstract developments. In some contexts, it denotes the methodical steps in instruction or scientific inquiry, as when educators emphasize that instruction’s processes are unified within a systematic framework [1] or when detailed procedures in arithmetical methods are underscored [2]. In the realm of psychology and philosophy, authors use "processes" to capture the unfolding of mental and reasoning activities—from the elusive brain‐processes discussed in early psychology [3] and the dynamic psychic processes described by Freud and William James [4, 5] to the evolving social or economic processes that shape societies [6, 7]. Nature and the material world are not left out either; natural phenomena and mechanical functions such as those in diamond mining [8] or even the mechanical processes of nature itself are highlighted [9]. Thus, whether describing the internal workings of the human mind, the logical sequences in learning, or the observable phenomena in the physical world, "processes" operates as a rich, multifaceted metaphor across literary genres [10, 11, 12].
- Processes of instruction are unified in the degree Chapter Thirteen: The Nature of Method Summary.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - It is not enough for pupils to understand arithmetical processes; they must be able to use them accurately and rapidly.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows - To what brain-processes they correspond we do not know.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Or, to put it in another way, a dynamic conception alone of these psychic processes is not enough; there is need of an economic viewpoint.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Dawning processes probably play as important a part in giving the feeling of duration to the specious present.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - In what different ways does status ( a ) grow out of, and ( b ) prevent, the processes of personal competition and group competition?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Both processes have been concerned in the formation of modern nationalities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - At the Cape of Good Hope exhibit, I learned much about the processes of mining diamonds.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - Man's life is bound up in the processes of nature; his career, for success or defeat, depends upon the way in which nature enters it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Hobhouse, looking backward, is interested in progress itself rather than in its methods and processes.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - He has grown up into a world where certain processes, certain activities have their magic, which is as much an attribute of theirs’ as anything else.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - There can be no lasting peace in the processes of nature and existence.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant
