Sentence examples for thought presupposes from inspiring English sources

Cook Wilson believed that in philosophy, one must above all "uncompromisingly to try to find out what a given activity of thought presupposes as implicit or explicit in our consciousness", i.e., to "try to get at the facts of consciousness and not let them be overlaid as is so commonly done with preconceived theories" (SI, 328).

A notion of God is an abstract conception of God, while a real image of God, he tends to think, presupposes the notion, but deepens it by way of affectively toned, first hand experience of God.

Though not essential to phenomenal consciousness, personhood is often thought to presuppose consciousness, and so perhaps is best thought of as a level of elaboration or complexity of consciousness.

In other words, citizenship, both as a legal status and as an activity, is thought to presuppose the existence of a territorially bounded political community, which extends over time and is the focus of a common identity.

The very phrase "applied ethics", now so familiar (and yet, one may think, tendentious), presupposes a tradition of ethical theories, such as his, that invite practical applications.

To cross straight into a consideration of the objectivity of the human world of action and thought spirit would be to break the developmental pattern of the logic because thought about such a complex form of objective existence will presuppose thought about simpler forms.

Demonstrating that the notion is a suitable tool for the explanatory task requires showing that a given trait's proper function is wholly given by the process of natural selection and that its specification does not presuppose thought and interpretation (as above, on pain of circularity).

Shape, recall, presupposes extension.

Of course, if you thought that empirical justification presupposes a priori justification, and that that sort of justification presupposes (J), there could be no non-circular justification of (J).

For Eckhart, thinking presupposes no origin because a presupposed origin could only be thought by thinking and hence would be a thought of thinking, that is, itself thinking.

"Undecidability," says Wittgenstein (PR §174) "presupposes… that the bridge cannot be made with symbols," when, in fact, "[a] connection between symbols which exists but cannot be represented by symbolic transformations is a thought that cannot be thought," for "[i]f the connection is there,… it must be possible to see it".