Kant puts this point in a number of ways, suggesting that the idea of the soul is one to which we are led necessarily insofar as we are constrained by reason to seek the "totality" of the "synthesis of conditions of a thought in general" (A397), or insofar as we seek to represent "the unconditioned unity" of "subjective conditions of representations in general" (A406/B433).
This argument he also finds lacking in strict probative force; he nonetheless considers it an important marker of the dynamics of human reason to seek an explanatory totality, even though it does not thereby provide a sure demonstrative route to an affirmation of God.
Can we really relinquish the heard realities of dissonance and consonance, or the ear's desire to seek out a musical totality or gestalt?
We seek to give our manufactured reality the slip and experience the totality of it and relieve ourselves of the responsibility of creating the world and just to fall back into it somehow.
Currently, most clinical development programs use combinations of several or all available approaches to seek 'totality of evidence' to develop a FIH dose selection rationale for a particular mAb-based therapeutics.
Time and again, he sought justification in the nebulous terms of "totality" ("I would say that I wanted to tell a story that captured the totality") and "complexities" ("Well I did think it would unpack the complexities of, of like how, how the story gets told"), as if the audience would fail to process the message if was not embellished.
Using cumulative meta-analysis, we sought to determine the strength of the totality of evidence and the year when the association between specific immune markers and major depressive disorder first reached statistical significance.
But experience suggests that the totality-of-the-circumstances test which 3501 seeks to revive is more difficult than Miranda for law enforcement officers to conform to, and for courts to apply in a consistent manner...
He described this organism as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
