Sentence examples for principle thought from inspiring English sources

And even a substantial number of those who did not oppose it in principle thought that it would not succeed unless accompanied by a South African or Argentine-style truth commission.

Historical reconstruction and explanation involves 'entering into' the motives, principles, thoughts and feelings of others; it is based on a capacity for knowing like that of knowing someone's character or face (1978b, 132 3).

He regarded it as the principle of thought.

He held this view against that of the Peripatetics who believed that there must be an internal principle of thought in beasts because of the intricacy and apparent human-like intelligence of their movements.

In this respect, it can be seen how Descartes's account of mechanism and his distinction between principles of matter and principles of thought comport well with Desgabets's world view.

Accordingly, the principles of thought correspond, in his view, to those of reality a position at odds with Kant (even when he is interpreted as a realist).

Wolff mildly criticized Leibniz's grounding of the PSR merely in experience and attempted to marshal several proofs for the principle (Rational Thoughts, §§ 30 31, 143; Ontologia, §§ 56 78).

One might also cite the fact that Kant links autonomy not only to practical but also theoretical reason: "the power to judge autonomously that is, freely (according to principles of thought in general)—is called reason".

Theological discourse and inquiry look like any other and is, needless to say, governed by the common principles of thought and being; but it is characterized formally by the fact that its arguments and analyses are taken to be truth-bearing only for one who accepts Scriptural revelation as true.

So how do we apply spiritual principles of thought and action in this particularly disturbing and polarizing political season?

This is part of the so-called basic principles of thought: maintain the leadership of the party; maintain Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong theught; maintain the dictatorship of the proletariat.