Sentence examples for psychological possibility from inspiring English sources

Often, though, the critic's arguments about psychological possibility are actually run together with desirability claims.

Hume went so far as to allow that other-directed passions need not be benevolent in character at all, admitting malice as a genuine psychological possibility.

The psychological possibility of doxastic venture Some philosophers have argued, however, that one cannot (in full reflective awareness, anyway) believe that p while accepting that one has insufficient evidence for p's truth (Adler 2002).

James is thus able to explain the psychological possibility of doxastic venture: one already has a 'passionally' caused belief, which one then takes to be true in practical reasoning while recognising its lack of adequate evidential grounding (compare Creel 1994, who takes 'faith' to connote a 'non-evidential doxastic passion').

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, as already mentioned, immediately criticized Kant's allowance of things in themselves of unknown determinations, and replaced it with a straightforward fideism about external existence (which he alleged to find in Hume's rejection of the psychological possibility of skepticism).

Whether or not this strongly naturalistic conception of epistemology can ultimately be defended, it is misleading for Laudan to suggest that the thesis of underdetermination becomes trivial or obviously insupportable the moment we inquire into the rational defensibility rather than the mere logical or psychological possibility of alternative revisions to the holist's web of belief.

Mr. Peteran appears to be more interested in the structure and essential nature of furniture than its broader psychological possibilities.

Among the medical causes for retrograde amnesia, however, there are both neurological and psychological possibilities that would apply in Kyle's case.

There he worked with the Russian film theorist and director Lev Kuleshov exploring the psychological possibilities of editing and juxtaposing images into emotional statements.

Rehabilitation potential was defined as the physiological and psychological possibilities of a disabled patient to restore, improve or maintain an optimal level of function and quality of life [ 6].

Another possibility derives from the psychological theory that explanations most accessible to us to account for our predicaments are vital determinants of our morale.