Sentence examples for an object of thought from inspiring English sources

An essence is a universal, an object of thought, not a material force.

The relation between man and God, however, is always an I-Thou one, whereas that between man and man is very frequently an I-It one, in which the other being is treated as an object of thought or action.

This intellect can also be an object of thought.

It exists merely as an object of thought.

Rather, Cohen argues that we must think of the thing-in-itself as the totality of all experience, taken as an object of thought (Cohen 1885, 503ff).

This, he maintains, is the distinctive kind of consciousness that is involved in the cognition of universals.[11] A being endowed with such "species-consciousness" is able to take its own essential nature as an object of thought.

"A unit is any object of thought which can be discriminated from every other object treated as a unit in the same problem" (Jevons 1874: 157).

Relatedly, this solution undermines a primary motivation for Meinongianism namely, the idea that there is a subject of predication corresponding to any object of thought, as we certainly do not think only of complete objects.

In his reply to Pierre Gassendi (1592 1655), author of the Fifth Set of Objections, he says that the term "idea" is extended "to cover any object of thought" (AT VII 366; CSM II 253).

This misapplication of the category is problematic precisely because, according to Kant, we are dealing only with an object of pure thought, whose existence cannot be known (A602/B630).

In addition, Kant claims that the concept of God is not of one a particular sense; rather, it is an "object of pure thought".