Therefore, on Natorp's view, strange as it may sound, the phenomenon "Mars" is an hypothesis, an object certainly, but for all that an ideal and never fully determined thought-object; moreover, the motion of this object, too, is ideal: it can be calculated with the utmost exactitude.
For this blurring of personal and collectively recognised data is inherent to what Rist does: creating fantasy spaces within which to play with the worldly constructs (from religious dogma to scientific and civic laws) that determine thought and action.
If the thought experiments are right about this, then internal states do not wholly determine thought content.
& yet, in a recent article about Russian politics in "Time" the word was used as though it were an untranslatable idiom... Linguistics call the belief that words determine thoughts "linguistic relativism".
It is a determined, well-thought-out response.
Mr Kennish, 40, said the bombings at the Boston Marathon have made him more determined: "My thoughts and prayers go out to the people in Boston but we cannot let people like that ruin such great events.
Brennan told me this determined which thoughts were allowed in or out of the tavern of my subconscious, according to previously established negative and positive associations.
In addition, the judge determined that "thoughts, ideas and images" in the defendants' materials did not constitute "products" that could be considered defective.
Psychologists have detected what appears to be a disconnection between the parts of the brain governing emotion and those determining rational thought.
According to its strongest interpretation, the hypothesis implies linguistic conceptual relativism, or "linguistic relativity," the idea that language so completely determines the thoughts of its users that there can be no common conceptual scheme between people speaking different languages.
