And what you consider to be the system or method of thinking that bought you the house with a white picket fence is what has another man residing in his van down by the river.

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On top of that, criminals could use the same method to fool the terminal into thinking a transaction was bank-approved, allowing them to walk out of a store with goods they hadn't paid for.

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Argyris described a method for improving the thinking and decision-making of executive groups that involved engaging them both collectively and individually as a coach-facilitator, giving them feedback, challenging their thinking and using focused exercises to help them reflect on how they operate.

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It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions.

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Scientific method did not always match modern thought, reductionist thinking is fairly new in the scheme of humanity and is beginning to go out of fashion due to scientific advancement in physics.

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Prometheus Laboratories that Prometheus obtained a patent on a method of treating digestive-tract diseases that is so broad it prevents its researchers from even thinking about the process it covers.

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