Thus, depending upon how it is construed, Aristotle's Greek can be understood in at least four different ways: (i) without the active mind, nothing thinks; (ii) without the active mind, the passive mind thinks nothing; (iii) without the passive mind, nothing thinks; and (iv) without the passive mind, the active mind thinks nothing.
After all, what would be a more attractive theory to a bunch of male nerds sitting behind computers than the idea that all powerful women are actually passive, mind-controlled sexbots? .
Holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving are fun for some, but they're generally a passive-aggressive mind-crime committed by your lunatic family.
Like most people, he accepted and built on "two heads," "two kinds entirely distinct and heterogeneous": (1) active mind or spirit, perceiving, thinking, and willing, and (2) passive objects of mind, namely sensible ideas (sense-data) or imaginable ideas.
Executives say they design defaults with passive members in mind, but they seem to overlook some key factors.
More commonly known as fall, it used to bring to mind passive pleasures like watching the leaves turn color, rediscovering favorite sweaters and eating cheap drugstore candy.
In this version, America's mission is different from the ones libertarians and neoconservatives have in mind -- passive role model or aggressive evangelizer, respectively.
Kant compelled philosophers to stop conceiving the mind as a passive receptacle, arguing that the mind is active in producing experience out of its transcendental categories.
The examples who came to mind were passive boys who were too afraid to speak their minds.
There is something to this point, given Berkeley's refusal to elaborate upon the relation between active minds and passive ideas.
