Borrowing many of Hutcheson's arguments, he points out that if approval and disapproval were based on thoughts about the possible advantages and disadvantages of people's characters and actions to us, we would never feel approval and disapproval of people from "very distant ages and remote countries", since they cannot possibly affect us.
If our approval and disapproval were based on thoughts about our own benefits and harms, the moral sentiments would vary from person to person and for the same person over time.
All of that means it's really hard, at best, to accurately analyze the personality of a large swath of people based on thoughts that are skewed when put out and further distorted when absorbed by the machine.
Not having read any of the books she was taking, Day made her exchanges based on thoughts the titles or authors' names set in motion.
But it is controlled and planned aggression, one based on thought as much as brawn.
Listeners and viewers recognised that when he expressed a judgment, it was based on thought, knowledge, experience, and acquired information, not on prejudice or wish-fulfilment.
It is a thought that passes through few political journalists' minds - even in the US where, in the absence of the lobby system, articles have to be based on thought rather than fragments of gossip.
I'm also trying to do my own work whatever that means sort of running around and going crazy based on some thoughts and memories of my mother's suicide.
Beck cast off his Freudian mindset of instinctual drives and unconscious impulses in favour of a cognitive model, and developed a form of therapy based on the thoughts and beliefs that patients had about themselves.
In the context of the risk-benefit paradigm, an individual decision is based on both thoughts and feelings.
