But sometimes higher-order effects make a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unsolicited Advice VII: Should I Have a Web Page?] Reference

Or for that matter, higher-order (non-condensate) phonons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Hyperion] Reference

(See the entry on higher-order theories of consciousness.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

Thought can be focused on lower-order or higher-order goals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garret LoPorto: How to Serve Without Doing Anything... (in Particular)] Reference

“Some like it HOT: consciousness and higher-order thoughts.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

They take no part in the higher-order economies of the posthuman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

A higher-order sophotect would not have needed anything from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

It took years, but Morgan began to gain purchase on the higher-order skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Wouldn't Grow Up: When Sirius XM radio DJ Kenny Curtis talks, kids listen] Reference

This is precisely the position adopted by the defenders of higher-order theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

If you don't want to express factorial in Arc as a call to a higher-order function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Succinctness is Power] Reference

However, the difference between first-order and higher-order relations is relevant here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relative Identity] Reference

Each of these effects can interact with others leading to more complex, higher-order effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future climate change vulnerability assessments in the Arctic] Reference

"Consciousness, higher-order content, and the individuation of vehicles," Synthese 134: 477-504.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

Or the Dismal Itch. Or once I get better, there are some higher-order ones that get really nasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

You say string theory predicts higher-order terms that can be experimentally verified or rejected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

The Information Superhighway, Bauerlein concludes, does not instill "higher-order learning skills.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Aloha, Mr. Hand] Reference

The waiter's announcement was meant to generate higher-order levels of knowledge of a fact each already knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Knowledge] Reference

Unconscious mental states are unconscious precisely in that we lack the relevant higher-order states about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

Higher-order thought (HOT) theories take the required higher-order state to be an assertoric thought-like meta-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

Young children have few if any such higher-order beliefs, but still have many first-order beliefs that are justified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reliabilism] Reference

The central objection that commentators have raised is this: what's so special about higher-order willings or desires?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Will] Reference

This argument is, of course, no stronger than the higher-order thought account of consciousness upon which it is based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Consciousness] Reference

Areas performing more basic functions mature earlier; areas for higher-order functions (emotion, self-control) mature later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teenage Brains Seem] Reference

Here's the higher-order point: we shouldn't think about religions in terms of their worst excesses (take that, Mr. Hitchens).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Oppenheimer: Jenna Elfman, Will You Be My Scientologist Friend?] Reference

I'm one of a small cadre of experienced, high-risk obstetricians who now offer selective reduction for higher-order multiples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Multiple Births] Reference

Memorization is not inimical to either learning or critical thinking but is often the touchstone for those higher-order skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Our Children Need National Multiple Choice Tests] Reference

Frankfurt is explicit that higher-order desires need not be rooted in a person's moral or even settled outlook (1982, 89, n. 6).    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Will] Reference

These B-mixing experiments are very sensitive to higher-order contributions from new physics at high energies, such as supersymmetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Particle physics marches on] Reference

On this point, and in opposition to higher-order representation theories, Brentano and the phenomenologists are in general agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

All Tobas could do until he got up his nerve to try higher-order magic was to keep trying, sending messages and checking the tapestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

"You need to have a theory about how a particular circuit in the brain" can trigger complex, higher-order properties, Dr. Koch argues.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search for Intelligence, a Silicon Brain Twitches] Reference

Math and logic: At UC Irvine, Gordon Shaw suspected that all higher-order thinking is characterized by similar patterns of neuron firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Child's Brain] Reference

In Inception, DiCaprio's character is able to detect higher-order thoughts, like internal speech or decision-making, and even "steal" them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

As long as supply security dominates the policy agenda, international agreements on higher-order issues, including the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, will face hurdles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottomline Decisions] Reference

The intention was not to look simply at the first-order (or direct) effects of climate on agriculture but also at the higher-order effects on regional and national economies.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Air pollution and agriculture.] Reference