Sentence examples for immediate object from inspiring English sources

Thus, though the ultimate object of faith is God, its immediate object is the body of propositions articulating the basic Christian dogmas.

The immediate object of its publication was to aid the Doukhobors, who were persecuted in Russia because of their religious beliefs and practices, with which Tolstoy sympathized.

Engagement can fail with its immediate object, but still reshape the climate of opinion; it can succeed in warming deep-frozen relations, but at a cost not worth paying.

The immediate object of that crisis is the difference over Iraq and over what the best response is to the threat posed by terrorists, tyrants and the technologies of mass destruction more generally.

The sympathy of the civilized world goes out to the families of the victims as well as to the nation that was the immediate object of this heinous plot.

The natural world was the immediate object of both perception and thought, but it was not long before God came to be considered an even more important object of knowledge.

Perhaps the most historically standard, though not currently the most popular answer to this question has been that it is sense-data (private, non-physical entities that actually have the immediately experienced sensory qualities) that are the immediate objects of awareness or that are given.

Only because ideas lack these characteristics is Hume able to reason from the claim that mind-independent tables are not immediate objects of awareness to his stated conclusion above that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations.

Discussing sense perception and our ideas of external things, Descartes writes that the mind's sensation extends strictly and immediately only to the ideas: "the ideas were, strictly speaking, the only immediate objects of my sensory awareness [solas proprie et immediate sentiebam]" (Med. 3, AT 7 75).

The question of whether animals were the immediate objects of a cult is extremely difficult to judge in each particular case.

The idea that sense impressions form the immediate objects of perception played a large role in early analytic philosophy, showing once again its empiricist roots.