Sentence examples for persuasive impression from inspiring English sources

Persuasiveness might be a causal feature, so that a persuasive impression sets off a physiological process of being moved in a certain way.

The company is hoping its European fabrics, which, he said, "are finer and have better drape," will make a persuasive impression.

How reduced can the description be, how little can Craig-Martin draw and still transmit the immediate and persuasive impression of a credit card?

A persuasive impression is undiverted if there is no tension between it and its surrounding impressions.

The persuasive impression that this is a rope must be examined before the skeptic adheres to it (M 7.187).

The account of probability explains how one can discriminate among impressions by investigating whether an initially persuasive impression agrees with one's other impressions or if there is something about the conditions in which it arose that undermines confidence in it.

Does adherence to persuasive impressions involve belief?

It is not difficult to see how this shift in the understanding of persuasive impressions might lead to a re-evaluation of the conception of rationality shared by Stoics and, at least in part, by the radical skeptics.

In the case of perceptual impressions, the difference between their view and the Clitomachian position is clarified by a criticism from Philo's former student Antiochus that some Academics took persuasive impressions to be a 'criterion of truth', rather than just of action (see Sextus M. 7.435 8 and Cicero Ac. 2.32 6).

Thus, by combining both stages, Clitomachus was able to argue that the Academic is free to 'follow' or 'approve' persuasive impressions without assenting to them: the Academic has a 'practical criterion' that allows for action without presupposing the cognitive access to objective truth required for rational assent (Sextus M. 7. 166; cf. Cicero Ac. 2.108).

More specifically, it suggests that we can take persuasive impressions as evidence for the truth that is firm enough to warrant assent — thus allowing for a life guided by reasoned belief, and even ethical teaching — while simultaneously maintaining that even the most perfect rational consideration of the evidence is compatible with wholesale error.