Sentence examples for thinking thing from inspiring English sources

But Thomas thinks Socrates thinks, and is thus a thinking thing.

Then, in the Sixth Meditation, having established, to his satisfaction, the mark of truth, he used that mark to frame a positive argument to the effect that the essence of mind is thought and that a thinking thing is unextended; and that the essence of matter is extension and that extended things cannot think (7:78).

To him, "the electric is alive, like a thinking thing, prescient and moving, ambulatory almost".

Consider this – the prehistoric word for mind – manu – which gives us our word man – originally did not mean a male thing, but instead a thinking thing.

Even if he was completely mistaken or deceived about all of his thoughts, he could still say with certainty that he exists as a thinking thing, because in order to be mistaken or deceived, he must exist as a mind.

It is possible for something to be thinking because God is actually a thinking thing (IIp1d).

I think you're doing just that: thinking things up.

Thus Hobbes apparently thinks that talk about incorporeal substances (such as Cartesian unextended thinking things) is just nonsense.

I quickly went from thinking things were weird to thinking things were pretty scary.

Has your business made decisions without thinking things through sufficiently?

Sinkler headed back down the road, thinking things out.