Here, Plato inferred a (within-group!) golden rule from an empirically based thought-experiment.
Shortly after the announcement, a former TTP spokesman issued a statement sayingsaid the army's claims were based on "thoughts and fantasies".
Over the past decade, many Americans have based their thoughts and feelings about Islam in large part on a single place: the blasted patch of ground where the World Trade Center once stood.
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.
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.
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.
Because couches are less comfortable, they offer fewer temptations toward "base thoughts," she explains.
He contrasted Emerson's "positive thinking," which suppressed our baser thoughts, with the Puritan preoccupation with the flawed nature of mankind.
