Sentence examples for a thinking being from inspiring English sources

But a healthy, adult human organism seems a paradigm case of a thinking being.

And because each of us is a thinking being, we are not animals.

The old philosophy conceived of the cogito as "an abstract and merely a thinking being to whose essence the body does not belong" (GPZ, 319 320/ 54).

(P3) is also difficult to resist, since its denial would seem to require positing the existence of a thinking being in your chair other than yourself.

In terms of 'G', i.e., the strict relation of "grasping", the weaker relation of "grasping" between a thinking being and an idea or proposition can be defined as follows: a thinking being x "grasps" (in the weaker sense of this word) an idea or proposition o iff there is a subjective idea or a judgment p in x's mind such that p G o.

When a human being is conscious of himself as human, he is conscious of himself not only as a thinking being, but also as a willing and a feeling being.

Admit you are a sensory, thinking being.

Rather, his criticism is that the possibility of sameness of person without sameness of thinking Being that the Memory Theory allows is inconsistent with Locke's characterization of a person as a 'thinking Being'.

"He's a thinker — thinking is part of the whole Spooky aura.

On Memory, 450a1: "without an image thinking is impossible".

A fundamental characteristic of libertarian thinking is a deep skepticism of government power.