Sentence examples for a pure understanding from inspiring English sources

These early hints, which were short of an outright denial of a pure understanding, were interpreted correctly by Descartes in 1647.

Perhaps he had been applying Descartes' previous advice about substantial forms to ignore them rather than deny their existence explicitly when he refrained from denying a pure understanding in his earlier writings.

And I'm a man who wants to share joy and a pure understanding with an upstanding female.

Later Platonic philosophers, known as Neoplatonists (see the entry on Plotinus), also focused primarily on ethics in the context of cosmology and theology, stressing the ascent of the soul to a disembodied pure understanding of the One.

A testament to an unfiltered and pure understanding to nature, an artist from the arte povera movement finds special joy in connecting in a primal way with the natural world.

Moreover, since particular causal relations, for Kant, necessarily involve causal laws, all of our inferences from particular perceptions to universal causal laws of nature are grounded in synthetic a priori principles of pure understanding providing a synthetic a priori conception of the unity and uniformity of nature in general.

Furthermore the propositional content of every judgment contains a set of a priori logical forms deriving from the pure understanding, as well as a higher-order a priori rational subjective unity deriving from the faculty for apperception or rational self-consciousness (see Section 2.1.1 above).

Thus the synthetic a priori "mathematical" principles of pure understanding are said by Kant to be constitutive, while the synthetic a priori "dynamical" principles of pure understanding are said to be regulative (A178 181/B220 224).

As Ms. James promised pure understanding to a wounded lover, she sang with the measured deliberation of someone determined to put aside her own needs or misgivings.

Pure understanding 'is a faculty which is independent of the body in the same way as the will is' (T 292; THM 188).

The centerpiece of the third book, on pure understanding, is a defense of the claim that the ideas through which we perceive bodies exist in God.