Here, the national broadcaster inoculates us all against the virus of knowledge and keeps us safe from the possibility of thought.
It's a development that excites Little, whose team have also been exploring the possibility of thought control with their own device.
For five years he lay mute and immobile beneath a diagnosis — "vegetative state" — that all but ruled out the possibility of thought, much less recovery.
Maimon found a solution to this problem in a principle of difference: whereas identity is the condition of possibility of thought in general, it is difference that constitutes the genetic and productive principle of real thought.
On the other hand, Fumerton's relational view of acquaintance, like the traditional Russellian view, seems to allow for the possibility of acquaintance with abstract entities such as universals, which some acquaintance theorists appeal to in order to make sense of the possibility of thought and a priori knowledge (see section 4).
In other work, and compatibly with his swampman example, Davidson defends what Bridges (2006) describes as "transcendental externalism," a view according to which the very possibility of thought depends on a creature being involved in a complex causal relationship—"triangulation"—involving a second creature and a shared environment.
By including chimerical beings among the objects of conception Descartes opened the door to the possibility of thoughts without true objects.
However, it is clearly an objection to biosemantics to argue that its appeal to history rules out the possibility of thoughts about telephones or computers, not to mention thoughts about things that do not yet exist.
It was able to look past his fear and expand the possibilities of his thought process, as he considered remote mental associations that he'd never contemplated before.
The effect of humanism was to help men break free from the mental strictures imposed by religious orthodoxy, to inspire free inquiry and criticism, and to inspire a new confidence in the possibilities of human thought and creations.
