Sentence examples for thought it obvious from inspiring English sources

He thought it obvious that many of the rights would never apply to Guantánamo detainees.

(One might have thought it obvious that either both of these acts are completely outrageous, or neither of them is).

Descartes thought it obvious that we are conscious, that our minds are distinct from our bodies, and that our minds are free.

EnidColeslaw gave a literary second chance: After having seen the romantic "dramedy" One Day at the cinema, I thought it obvious to steer clear of David Nicholls's works, and snobbishly dismissed him as the paragon of mushy lit that was not worthy of my TBR (the literary meanness can go far!).

Hume thought it obvious that political society could not exist without "exact obedience of the magistrate" but this is surely empiricism without the facts.

Nonetheless, some basic observations about the Tractatus's conception of analysis will enable us to see why Wittgenstein should have thought it obvious that analysis must terminate in this way.

"We think it obvious that the constitutional minimum. . . is not satisfied by such a scheme," he wrote.

She thinks it obvious that a community that keeps itself to itself and doesn't want to mix with others is an outrage.

"We think it obvious," he wrote, "that a reasonable worker might be dissuaded from engaging in protected activity" like filing a charge of discrimination "if she knew that her fiancé would be fired".

Wittgenstein, moreover, thinks it obvious that the analysis of every proposition does terminate.

Collingwood says nothing in direct reply to this worry, but I think it obvious that the reply would be this.