Sentence examples for subject of thought from inspiring English sources
This allowed them to study quantum mechanical behaviour that had previously only been the subject of thought experiments, such as the famous Schrödinger's cat.
While consciousness does contain a reference to the subject of thought, for Cudworth, it does not do so immediately or explicitly.
Each thought, according to Arnauld, has reflection built into it a representation of the subject of thought is an essential part of the content of each thought.
So says Herbert Simon, psychologist, author of The Sciences of the Artificial (MIT Press, 1996) and 30 other books — and one of this century's greatest thinkers on the subject of thought.
Reid's first criticism rests on his interpreting Locke's definition as committing him to the position that a person is a subject of thought, which Reid regards as implying that a person is a thinking substance.
She upbraided him even more severely for having suggested that she might write to him during an "odd time" when she might find a "change of subject of thought a relief": "Good God, sh[oul]d you think it a relief to think of something else some acquaintance or what not while I was dying?" (H. T. Mill 1998, 360).
Give yourself a few minutes for this to occur and let go of distractions, agendas and other subjects of thought.
But even if 'Odysseus' indicates an entity that can be the subject of a thought that is true if and only if the entity in question arrived, other considerations suggest that 'Nobody' and 'The king' do not indicate subjects of thoughts in this sense.
All of which is to say that the humble economy class airplane seat, subject of ill thoughts when it is thought about at all, was primed to receive more attention even even before American's 757 troubles began because a lot of thinking goes into where we put our seats.
PHILADELPHIA — The British artist Jeremy Deller, the subject of a thought-provoking exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art here, is the anti-Damien Hirst.
(Ken Johnson) Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania: 'Jeremy Deller: Joy in People' (through Dec. 30) The British artist Jeremy Deller, the subject of this thought-provoking show, is the anti-Damien Hirst.
