Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences. One way is to see how children learn. Another example is consciousness. The concept is usually explored by armchair academics. Looking at kids expands our conceptions of consciousness.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.
Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.
That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must. " "I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically. " "None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. "How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun. " Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.
You can't do business sitting on your. . . armchair!
The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.
