Sentence examples for empirical thought from inspiring English sources

He has tried to show the place existential knowledge has in an age of scientific, empirical thought.

See, for example, "The Postulates of Empirical Thought," in the first Critique (B 265-87); and "On method in metaphysics concerning what is sensitive and what belongs to the understanding," in the InauguralDissertation (AK 2 411).

The very fact of the finite limitations of empirical thought therefore becomes what gives rise to the infinite, which, in Hegel's terms, is thought that is bounded by itself and by nothing else.

The essence of our view, by contrast, is that precisely this a priority and necessity has a crucial constitutive dimension, resting on Kant's discussion of the category of necessity in the Postulates of Empirical Thought: it is for precisely this reason, in particular, that the (empirical) causal laws in question have a more than merely inductive status.

It is here that he made his most important philosophical discoveries (cf. Mohanty 1995), such as the transcendental-phenomenological method, the phenomenological structure of time-consciousness, the fundamental role of the notion of intersubjectivity in our conceptual system, the horizon-structure of our singular empirical thought, and more.

I am constantly comforted in the empirical thought that the best music of all time happened between 1960-85.

Functionalists, including psychologists William James and James Rowland Angell, and philosophers George H. Mead, Archibald L. Moore, and John Dewey, stressed the importance of empirical, rational thought over an experimental, trial-and-error philosophy.

With Külpe he had engaged in empirical research on thought processes contra Wundt's atomistic psychology-, with special attention to imageless thought and the importance of language.

Pragmatisch refers to experimental, empirical, and purposive thought "based on and applying to experience".

English ways of intellectual expression are largely empirical whereas French thought tends toward abstraction.

With Thales logical reasoning made a giant step forward from the age of empirical modes of thought.