Sentence examples for taking oneself to from inspiring English sources

The Stoics, followed by Antiochus in his dogmatic phase, argued that this position is self-refuting since to adopt a position is to assent to its component doctrines and assent is impossible without taking oneself to know.

Bad faith, a kind of self-deception, involves believing or taking oneself to be an X while all along one is (and knows oneself to be) actually a Y.

The superficial air of paradox dissolves when one realizes that in accepting that one does not know anything one is not taking oneself to know this, but only opining that it is highly probable.

Not every instance of taking oneself to remember that p is an instance of actually remembering that p. We should distinguish, therefore, between remembering that p (which entails the truth of p) and seeming to remember that p (which does not entail the truth of p).

Much of life is, of course, more complex than this, in part because one often has to choose between competing preferences and estimate how likely it is that one can actually satisfy them in the circumstances one takes oneself to be in.

It is a confusion to take oneself to be "punishing" another for some fact over which he has or had no control (Mabbott 1939).

It contrasts with ethnic or national identity, which consists roughly of the ethnic group or nation one takes oneself to belong to and the importance one attaches to this.

Consider an example: one might take oneself to have offered a reduction of the number one, in claiming that: what it is to be the number one is just to be the successor of zero.

One does not actually take oneself to be the fictional character; rather, the "model" or pattern of response or sentiment or thought one has acted out when "imitating" the character becomes enacted.

Whether or not a situation of choice is looked at in terms of one's "private" or "shared" point of view depends on whom one takes oneself to be: a solitary individual or a group member.

One need not be conceptually confused to take oneself to have reason to intentionally inflict harsh treatment on another, whether because one wants to look like one is punishing the guilty (what Rawls 1955 called "telishment"), or because one is simply oppressing others on the basis of some trait, say their ethnicity or physical appearance, that they could not help having.