Sentence examples for act of thinking from inspiring English sources

On Chatton's view, concepts are modifications of the soul, and in particular my concept of X is nothing more than my act of thinking about X. Concepts are not intermediaries that we then think with, but are rather simply our very acts of thinking themselves, i.e., my concept of X is just my intellectio (=act of thinking) of instances of X.

It amply fulfils his claim to be "a report on the act of thinking".

Mr. Castle, now a soft-spoken 80-year-old, equated the act of drawing to the act of thinking.

Now, thanks to new technologies, it was finally possible to create pictures, however crude, of the brain in the act of thinking.

The act of thinking about Worm's jawbone has raised several questions that I have not been able to answer to my satisfaction.

He says that philosophy requires a certain rare and innate ability — the ability to step outside yourself and observe your own mind in the act of thinking.

Token-token identity theory does not claim that these physical states have anything in particular in common, still less that all acts of thinking about the theorem have something in common.

However, unlike Reid, who was later to argue for a rigorous distinction between sensations, considered as states of feeling experienced by the mind, and perceptions, considered as acts of thinking something about an object, Condillac maintained that sensations do lend themselves to being treated as ideas.

She had no discernible previous connection with Brighton, but the local party opted to act national, instead of thinking local.

That act of critically thinking and publishing it (on a regular schedule) will help you transcend the ordinary.

The fact that bringing information to mind in the absence of feedback or restudy opportunities improves memory leads researchers to conclude that it is the act of retrieval – thinking back to bring information to mind – that improves memory of that information.