Sentence examples for suppose ourselves from inspiring English sources

Yet, he urges, 'if anything is clear, it is that we do suppose ourselves to be making incompatible statements about the object' (RG 83).

We suppose ourselves the spectators of our own behavior, and endeavor to imagine what effect it would, in this light, produce upon us.

The eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith captures the details of the relationships underlying face when he describes what he calls the "looking-glass" self: We suppose ourselves the spectators of our own behavior, and endeavor to imagine what effect it would, in this light, produce upon us.

But suppose we restrict ourselves to talking about the deficit, and ask: What happened to the budget surplus the federal government had in 2000?

What increases my pain is this [Islamist] chauvinist arrogance which claims that innocent blood, shed by barbarian, brutal minds under the slogan "Allahu Akbar", means nothing compared to the act of building an Islamic mosque whose mission will be to... spawn new terrorists... Suppose we put ourselves in the place of American citizens.

Suppose we take ourselves to know some claim, q, by inferring it from another claim, p, which we know, but our knowing p in the first place depends on the truth of q.

'Suppose we ask ourselves whether our sense that we ought to pay our debts or to tell the truth arises from our recognition that in doing so we would be originating something good … We at once and without hesitation answer "No"' (10).

Suppose we persuade ourselves, after deliberate reflection, that there are no grounds for hope.

Or would we be fooling ourselves to suppose that it has ever been anything else?

I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky she stopped short of an itinerant onion seller.

It's a fantasy of not growing up ourselves, I suppose, and there's a danger in not knowing whether to be a parent or a friend".