And since we do not doubt that there are inanimate bodies which can move in as many different ways as our bodies, if not more, and which have as much heat or more, we must believe that all the heat and all the movements present in us, in so far as they do not depend on thought, belong solely to the body" (AT XI 329, CSM I 329).
This argument moves from the fact that he can doubt the existence of the material world, but cannot doubt the existence of himself as a thinking thing, to the conclusion that his thoughts belong to a nonspatial substance that is distinct from matter.
As I wonder, "To whom do these thoughts belong?" Many of the thoughts that float before me belong to my mother.
EVERYONE IS STARING AT ME Finally, do try and remember that as you enter the dining hall alone, no matter what you might think of yourself, those thoughts belong entirely to you.
In contrast, adulthood means learning that SS officers or drone pilots do go home and kiss their wives, without a thought of belonging to the "dark side".
In a dig at the Labour compliance unit, which some party members claim has been unfairly denying leadership ballots to potential voters, Farron said the Lib Dems would not target anyone "for thinking the wrong thoughts or belonging to the wrong group".
The complaint of thought insertion, for example, necessarily acknowledges that the inserted thoughts are thoughts that belong to the subject's experience, even as the agency for such thoughts are attributed to others.
For instance, one child with obsessional thoughts (69 month-old boy) was partially able to admit, on direct questioning, that his thought of harming his friends but not contamination by germs may be a silly thought that belonged to another person inside of him.
According to tradition but not historic fact Gamaliel succeeded his father, Simon, and his grandfather, the renowned sage Hillel (to whose school of thought he belonged), as nasi (president) of the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish court.
