In the following we will first highlight some of the most common features of thought experiments.
Another is to ask for an explanation of the structural similarity between the general features of thought and the general features of reality.
At this point, The Order of Things introduces the two central features of thought after Kant: the return of language and the "birth of man".
Conversely, someone who holds that representations are unstructured has, at least, some explaining to do to account for these features of thought.
Concentration upon Appearance and Reality alone, therefore, risks placing undue weight upon what turn out to be temporary features of thought or expression, and this has in fact contributed to the distorted impressions of his thinking so often to be found in the textbooks of analytic philosophy.
It is a very intriguing feature of thought experiments that they can be "rethought" (see Bokulich, 2001).
The plasticity of thought experiments coheres with another feature of thought experiments, namely that they seem to have "evidential significance only historically and locally, i.e., when and where premises that attribute evidential significance to it are endorsed".
One of the defining features of obsessive thoughts is that they are unwanted; we don't act on them.
Its austere, non-expressive exterior cradles yellowing headline clips pasted to the inside of the skull, tying the pensive features to thoughts of lynching and the Vietnam War.
The most distinctive features of his thought seem to have been an extreme spiritualism, an insistence, even sharper than that of Plotinus, on the "flight from the body" and more philosophically important a greater sympathy with the less sharply defined vertical hierarchies of the Platonists who had preceded Plotinus.
