Sentence examples for if one possesses from inspiring English sources

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In general, if one possesses evidence that one normally would take to support ~p and yet believes p instead due to some desire, emotion or other motivation one has related to p, then one is self-deceived.

On the other hand, one consideration against this view is the intuition that a belief cannot be justified if one possesses no reason for it.

In its extreme form the appeal involved the throwing off of all restraints upon self-interest and the desires of the individual (e.g., the doctrine of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias that might, if one possesses it, is actually right), and it was this, more than anything else, that gave support to charges against the Sophists of immoral teaching.

Only if one possesses oneself can one give oneself and do this in a disinterested way.

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If one possessed the ambition, hustle and financial resources, it would be possible to attend a music festival every weekend, all summer long and then well into the fall.

For instance, when shopping one must compare the funds one possesses to the cost of the bill to determine if the purchase can be made.

If one already possessed an incontestable version of the truth, all these deviations could be seen as deplorable -- comparable, perhaps, to "wild analysis" in the Freudian tradition.

Granted, a bent toward procrastination is definitely a character flaw, but if one must possess at least one of those, then to be labeled a procrastinator is certainly not the worst of the lot.

Certainly "It" girls do have sex, but they project an attitude that even if one were possessed of enough chutzpah to storm their chilly, blond bastions, far from being either slapped or slobbered upon, you might simply be offered a cup of tea.

What traits must one possess?

Wolf, similarly, composed songs like one possessed.

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