Sentence examples for purposive thought from inspiring English sources

Pragmatisch refers to experimental, empirical, and purposive thought "based on and applying to experience".

In the history of English spelling, though, we can trace a whole series of purposive, thought-through and often ingenious practical decisions – made over the years by scribes, compositors and lexicographers – whose net result is a complete flaming boggins.

James maintained that thought is adaptive and purposive but also suffused with ideal emotional and practical interests—"should-bes"—which, as conditions of action, work to transform the world and create the future.

I thought bad thoughts.

Hence, while enquiries into the biological realm may safely assume purposive function, as a necessary theoretical posit, such assumptions may serve only as regulative not constitutive principles in biological thought.

Fermat's principle is "purposive, almost teleological".

What is required is purposive intervention – and it precisely this that is lacking.

Binny thought.

Interesting thought.

Whitacre thought.

Etgar thought.