Sentence examples for As an affect from inspiring English sources

Goodwill in this sense should be understood not strictly speaking as an affect, but as a disposition to have certain affects in certain situations what we might call an affective disposition.

This "colouring" of thought is often regarded as an affect.

In a different vein, God's love for himself cannot count as an affect, since God is immutable and this love is essential to God.

"No affect," he claims, "can be restrained by the true knowledge of good and evil insofar as it is true, but only insofar as it is considered as an affect" (quoted in Lloyd 1998, 162).

Descartes' views of the function or content of pleasure and Spinoza's official definitions of pleasure as an affect of transition to greater perfection are close to Plato's, as also are one of Kant's characterizations,[18] one of Elijah Millgram's (2000, pp. 122-26), and Timothy Schroeder's (2001, 2004, discussed in §3.2).

Perhaps he will just be playing dress-up, cutting his hair into the shape of a decorative bowl and adopting that man's crazed, monstrous gaze as an affect.

While it has recently been argued that Suppression might not be used solely as an affect regulation strategy but also as a way to prevent negative evaluation of others [ 26], this potential problem was avoided by the instruction which asks specifically for things to do to make oneself feel better.

Exercise was only discussed as an affected physical activity by HIV-AN participants (n=5, 31%).