Sentence examples for a rational impression from inspiring English sources
They define a sayable as "that which subsists in accordance with a rational impression".
Though a person may have no choice about whether she has a particular rational impression, there is another power of the commanding faculty which the Stoics call 'assent' and whether one assents to a rational impression is a matter of volition.
Presumably 'graphei Sôkratês' and 'Socrates writes' exhibit the contents of one and the same rational impression in different languages.
As a human being, the skeptic has rational impressions.
Only now, they have rational impressions to which they can assent.
Rational impressions are those alterations of the commanding faculty whose content can be exhibited in language.
Reason (it would seem) makes assent possible, in that it enables the subject to assent to or withhold assent from impressions, and it transforms mere impressions and mere impulses, such as other animals experience, into rational impressions and rational impulses.
From the point of view of the Stoics, skeptical action, if performed without the relevant kind of assent (that is, assent that it is up to the agent to give, and that is a rational acceptance of the impression), is like the action of a non-rational animal, or like the automatic movement of plants when they grow and flourish.
But once Philo had begun to accept that persuasiveness could be used as a rational method for evaluating impressions, the radically skeptical position started to look more like an abdication of rationality than its paradigm.
A rational soulution, but a hard sell.
