Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not guided; not led or conducted.
  • Not regulated; ungoverned.

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  • adjective Not guided; without a guide

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  • adjective not subject to guidance or control after launching

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Examples

  • The irony of it all is that the term unguided was added by the ID minority in Kansas.

    The Panda's Thumb: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • The irony of this all is that the term unguided was added to the text by the ID minority in Kansas… If DougMoran considers that ACLU ‘intellectual terrorists’ for supposedly not opposing teaching that evolution is unguided, I wonder what words he has reserved for those in Kansas who insisted on including this into the science curriculum.

    The Panda's Thumb: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • The irony of this all is that the term unguided was added to the text by the ID minority in Kansas… If DougMoran considers that ACLU ‘intellectual terrorists’ for supposedly not opposing teaching that evolution is unguided, I wonder what words he has reserved for those in Kansas who insisted on including this into the science curriculum.

    ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • In other words, the term unguided came from the ID minority and the majority and scientists argued against the inclusion of this term.

    ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The irony of it all is that the term unguided was added by the ID minority in Kansas.

    ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • In fact, if you read through the Kansas science hearings held last May, you would have found scientists such as Steve Case arguing against the use of the word unguided in the standards.

    ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • (Of course, to anyone who is a true believer in unguided processes, every apparent gap in their ability is always only a gap in our knowledge.

    Behe: ID rescues Common Descent 2007

  • Sweller, and Clark accurately call unguided learning or minimal guidance learning.

    GraniteGrok 2010

  • I don't know if you can follow that, but the bottom line again is that we have no principled way to draw a line between cognitive functions and non-cognitive, "unguided", "blind" processes. aiguy: The phrase "at least human-like intelligence" only makes sense to me if it means "would get higher scores on the same IQ tests we give to other human beings".

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • But in your case, you know from personal experience that I was ready, willing and able to take on one of the world's greatest Christian philosophers when he claimed that Christian scientists must reject "unguided" Darwinism.

    Behe's Test, Take 2 2008

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