Sentence examples for the understanding itself from inspiring English sources

Such an investigation presupposes an acquaintance with our own minds, and thus according to Locke the most pressing task is to understand the mind or the understanding itself.

Rather, it is the understanding itself, Leibniz claims, which is the source of such truths and which guarantees their very necessity.

The struggle between the church, understanding itself as state, and the state, understanding itself as representative of the church, not only dominated the Middle Ages but also continued into the Reformation period.

As he put it, "Enquiry … [into] the pure understanding itself, its possibility and the cognitive faculties upon which it rests … is of great importance for my chief purpose, … [but] does not form an essential part of it" (Axvii).

From PTSD, to the waiting period for benefits at the VA -- among other issues that are so glaring that no action having been taken is tantamount, in my mind, to a form of treason -- to the lack of understanding of war itself among the public, we have come to believe that saying we understand is the same as understanding itself.

This goes beyond the interpretation of any one work, but probes the nature of understanding itself.

Christianity, from its beginning, has tended toward an intolerance that was rooted in the understanding of itself as revelation of the divine truth that became human in Jesus Christ himself.

Since both conversation and understanding involve coming to an agreement, so Gadamer argues that all understanding involves something like a common language, albeit a common language that is itself formed in the process of understanding itself.

This hypothesis accounts for the fact that goal understanding itself appears possible without any reliance on corresponding motor representations, while at the same time explaining the well-documented involvement of the observer's motor system during predictive tasks.

These abstractions then hide from the understanding and reason itself the transcendent knowledge that the latter enjoys de facto.

The report also calls for a national research program to advance the understanding of reconciliation itself.