Sentence examples for condition of thought from inspiring English sources

"Our democracy presupposes the deliberative process as a condition of thought and of responsible choice by the electorate".

To use a book is to engage with it as a set of forms and as a condition of thought; in this sense, the history of book use and the history of theoretical speculation are entwined.

Often a real experiment that is the analogue of a thought experiment is impossible for physical, technological, ethical, or financial reasons (see, e.g., Sorensen, 1992, pp. 200 202); but this needn't be a defining condition of thought experiments.

As Garp prognosticated 38 years ago, his (Trump's) "rule of law" shows a terminal condition of thought brought on by his view of the reality in which he believes he is master of all and, in turn, all then are subservient in deeds, thoughts, investigation, logic, honesty, and charity, to himself.

The scientific revolution radically altered the conditions of thought and of material existence in which the human race lives, and its effects are not yet exhausted.

Note that the units of thought are at least logically prior to language, so language is not considered a pre-condition of thought.

Institutions in Rawls's sense are the constitution, economic and social conditions, freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, economic markets with competition, and private property [22].

"Manorexia" is a cheapening label, making eating disorders sound like a trend, a depersonalised wave of behaviour rather than an incredibly individual condition, the result of thought processes, behavioural patterns and misguided beliefs that change from sufferer to sufferer.

Maimon found a solution to this problem in a principle of difference: whereas identity is the condition of possibility of thought in general, it is difference that constitutes the genetic and productive principle of real thought.

If O'Leary were to notice the pole star and think to himself that's Mars, for instance, the truth-conditions of his thought can be captured by a judiciously defined diagonal proposition (Stalnaker 1987, 125).

Kant puts this point in a number of ways, suggesting that the idea of the soul is one to which we are led necessarily insofar as we are constrained by reason to seek the "totality" of the "synthesis of conditions of a thought in general" (A397), or insofar as we seek to represent "the unconditioned unity" of "subjective conditions of representations in general" (A406/B433).