Sentence examples for the pure concept from inspiring English sources

Lorelei has a fiercely ­idealistic commitment to marrying rich so that the pure concept of love is not sullied by money worries; Dorothy pragmatically wishes only to follow her heart.

Thus, the pure concept of superframe structure of 802.15.4 cannot be applied to emergency data handling.

The objectivity of the pure concept of the human will precludes the recognition of human inclination as a measure of human goodness.

In what follows, the concept is referred to as neutrally as possible— employing the relatively common terminology of 'objects', albeit in the singular as the pure concept, object (or PCO, for short).

Kant claims further that the pure concept of magnitude is suitable for construction because, unlike other pure concepts, it does not represent a synthesis of possible intuitions, but "already contains a pure intuition in itself".

And in all these contexts, the pure concept in itself, embodying a entirely formal, logico-semantic category, cannot but continue to occupy the foundational role as base concept, upon which any and every more specific concept cannot fail to be constructed.

These features are imposed when the mind, in the act of forming a judgment about experience, brings the content of experience under one of the "pure concepts of the understanding".

In the Schematism, Kant undertakes to identify the particular mechanism that enables the pure concepts of the understanding to subsume sensible intuitions, with which they are heterogeneous.

On this point, see especially the "Amphiboly of the Pure Concepts of Reflection," which serves as an Appendix to the Transcendental Analytic in the first Critique A260-92/B316-49.

So the transcendental schematism of the pure concepts is insufficient to bridge the gap between categories and sensory appearances, and the transcendental doctrine of judgment fails.

According to Kant, all such empty propositions contain "ideas of pure reason," which are either concepts of noumenal objects or else meta-concepts that posit "totalizing" extensions of the pure concepts of the understanding (A320/B377, A326 329/B382 386).