Sentence examples for csm from inspiring English sources

The fifth discourse of this book contains the thesis that "a certain small gland in the middle of the ventricles" is the seat of the sensus communis, the general faculty of sense (AT VI 129, not in CSM I).

The description of the effect of the soul on the body in the causation of bodily movement is also more detailed: "And the activity of the soul consists entirely in the fact that simply by willing something it brings it about that the little gland to which it is closely joined moves in the manner required to produce the effect corresponding to this volition" (AT XI 359, CSM I 343).

I use "CSM" to refer to the pagination in Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch 1984 and Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch 1985.

The Meditation does contain compatibilist-sounding claims -- for example, that the will is maximally free when it is compelled to affirm truth (AT 7 58, CSM 2 40); that it would be impossible for us to be in a state of indifference if we had distinct perceptions only (ibid).; and that assent and dissent are a matter of the will being pulled and compelled by reasons (AT 7 59; CSM 2 41).

CSM Worldwide, a market-research firm, notes that the three carmakers will collectively sell around 14.3m cars and trucks this year, so that together they would dominate the European, American and Chinese markets.Nevertheless, CSM questions Mr Kerkorian's estimates of the potential cost-savings.

CSM, a food-ingredients group, has been targeted for its treatment of shareholder voting rights.

We could even have a name for it: Common Sense Management, or CSM for those of us in the trade.PAUL MCCUNNLondonSIR Tagging value metrics as a management fad is a bit trite.

So, for example, at Principles 2 36, Descartes argues that "if one part of matter moves twice as fast as another which is twice as large, we must consider that there is the same quantity of motion in each part; and if one part slows down, we must suppose that some other part of equal size speeds up by the same amount" (AT VIIIA 61/CSM 240).

By following the method he has prescribed for himself and exercising his capacity for judgment, he is confident of eventually acquiring all the true knowledge of which he is capable, and "in this way all the true goods within my reach" (AT VI 28/CSM I 125).

In the first rule of the unfinished Rules for the Direction of the Mind, he states: "The aim of our studies should be to direct the mind with a view to forming true and sound judgements about whatever comes before it" (AT X 359/CSM I 9).

For Descartes, freedom is an essential property of the will; however, this freedom does not entail indifference: "if I always saw clearly what was true and good, I should never have to deliberate about the right judgement or choice; in that case, although I should be wholly free, it would be impossible for me ever to be in a state of indifference" (AT VII 58/CSM II 40).