Russell has always struggled with the question of how to view our understanding of the quantifier expressions of quantity such as 'a' or 'the' but it is clear that he believed that we have the capacity to entertain in thought (directly) the properties (universals) picked out by predicate expressions.
Such thoughts as these, about art, are not entertained in the paradigms of professional literary study, wherein actual contact with art is but a distant rumor, at best.
When I entertained the thought in 1999, I kinda threw up a little too.
But for the first time in his career, Bledsoe entertained the thought that, maybe, he had not appreciated all of the things that football had given him.
No, it was not Preston Mommsen, their cricket captain, but he may have entertained such thoughts in Hobart when pitched against the mighty Australians.
In fact, the two had entertained the thought of seeking capital from a group of institutional sources, but quickly killed the idea.
"When I was a kid coming up, I never entertained the thought of doing something like this in my life".
He entertained the thought that a fix or two might be in order, but he did not entertain the thought for long.
Like other foreign students in America, Yanate Banigo, a Choate freshman from Nigeria, entertained the thought of withdrawing last September, when she just started high school.
Downing Street had seriously entertained the thought until last week that Johnson would eventually stand alongside the prime minister in supporting UK membership.
"I have never entertained the thought at all".
