Sentence examples for amounts to thought from inspiring English sources

He warns that the introduction of what amounts to thought crime could do more harm than good.

Crowds were amazed by its potential, and even The New Yorker was taken in, suggesting that this "remarkable machine…[was] capable of what amounts to thought".

"The government's position that one can be locked up for decades for expressions of political positions on the telephone," he said, "amounts to simple thought control".

But Khan's lawyer, Thomas Anthony Durkin, told the judge that the government was prosecuting Khan for what amounted to the "thought crime" of rejecting America and supporting the establishment of an Islamic homeland.

It also became clear early on that some jurors believed that much of Mr. Blagojevich's crass political talk — captured in hours of secretly recorded phone calls — amounted to dreamy thoughts of what he might gain, not criminal demands.

Getting the right prescriptions in architectural thought amounts to a social good, perhaps as a moral imperative.

Generically, this movement of thought amounts to a displacement from the center of philosophical attention of the notion of meaning in favor of that of use: in suitably broad senses of those terms, replacing concern with semantics by concern with pragmatics.

What troubles Mr. Purdy about this kind of irony is that in its extreme forms it can lead to alienation and indifference; it can become a substitute for action, and even for thought, and amounts to a passive acceptance of things as they are.

(Wilkes, 1988, p. 8) But Wilkes seems to think that the lack of description is unavoidable, which supposedly amounts to a reason against philosophical thought experimenting on personal identity because persons are not natural kinds.

While I certainly agree with the wish to avoid overgeneralizations and politically charged polarizations, and while I think the writings of the Kyoto School do need to be read critically in this regard, I am equally wary of a "globalization of thought" that amounts to a colonization of "non-Western" traditions by "Western" methods and categories of thinking.

Which brings me to a final thought: maybe all this amounts to a case for Rick Perry.