Similarly, an analysis of the concept, say, of existence "cannot consist just in acts of contemplating a rarefied object, withdrawn, like a coin in a museum, from its native commercial transactions" (1962b, 185).
Its act of contemplation makes what it contemplates— as though the very act of contemplation were automatically productive (III. 8. 4).
Typical is the Christian mystic Jan Ruysbroeck who wrote that emptying oneself is but a prelude to the mystical life of contemplating God through an act of Divine grace (Zaehner, 1961, 170 71).
The concept of contemplating nothingness is Buddhist.
They didn't have the luxury of contemplating their navels".
The section stated, in part: Section 3 of the Act thus "contemplates the possibility of an investigation by the court so that it may satisfy itself where the truth lies".
The Judiciary Act of 1802 plainly contemplated that certificates of division would issue in criminal cases.
In addition, he said, the federal death penalty statute provides that a defendant may be put to death only after a jury unanimously agrees that he "intentionally killed the victim" or "intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the life of a person be taken".
Mr. al-'Owhali's lawyers have also proposed arguing that although he "intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the lives of Americans" would be taken, he did not intend that Kenyan victims who were not employed in the embassy would also be killed.
I was told that in order to be accepted for a suicide mission the volunteers had to be convinced of the religious legitimacy of the acts they were contemplating, as sanctioned by the divinely revealed religion of Islam.
