Sentence examples for pure understanding from inspiring English sources

As Ms. James promised pure understanding to a wounded lover, she sang with the measured deliberation of someone determined to put aside her own needs or misgivings.

The pure understanding alone could at best enable us to form representations of an intelligible world.

Thus the synthetic a priori "mathematical" principles of pure understanding are said by Kant to be constitutive, while the synthetic a priori "dynamical" principles of pure understanding are said to be regulative (A178 181/B220 224).

The principles of pure understanding that are associated with the categories of quantity (i.e., unity, plurality and totality) are the Axioms of Intuition.

In the Critique of Pure Reason the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories aims to prove the validity of the employment of the concepts of pure understanding.

Pure understanding 'is a faculty which is independent of the body in the same way as the will is' (T 292; THM 188).

And we can (re)learn to appreciate play from those among us with the purest understanding of it: children.

Understanding (Verstehen) for Dilthey is a process that employs all our capacities and is to be distinguished from pure intellectual understanding (Verstand).

While a student at Fordham, he needed help understanding Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and turned to a priest at Mount Carmel.

The argument just sketched is a thumbnail version of the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding in the B edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (B129 B169), more commonly known as "the B Deduction".

According to Kant, all such empty propositions contain "ideas of pure reason," which are either concepts of noumenal objects or else meta-concepts that posit "totalizing" extensions of the pure concepts of the understanding (A320/B377, A326 329/B382 386).