Politically, the postmodernist emphasis on revealing the situatedness and contestability of any particular claim or system of thought is supposed to serve both critical and liberatory functions.
The rationale for necessitation is that every provable sentence should be necessarily true, but it is not clear how this thought is supposed to generalize to open formulas, which, strictly speaking, are not true or false.
Criticism of 'inner sense' theories is likely to focus not so much on the thought that such inner sensing can occur without phenomenal consciousness, or that the latter can occur without the former, as on the difficulty in understanding just what inner sensing (as distinct from higher order thought) is supposed to be, and why we should think we have it.
By 1910, the only real factor preventing Watson from conceiving of the study of behavior as embracing the whole of psychology seems to have been "the problem of the higher thought processes" (Burnham, 1968): Thought was supposed to be carried on primarily in imagery, and imagery was not behavior (see Watson, 1913b).
The predictability of such a sequence limits the reliance on external cues, which is important to maximise the chances that subjects will focus on internally generated thoughts when they are supposed to.
In Aristotelian thought, virtue ethics are supposed to lead to a good outcome: happiness.
The terms of Fodor's language of thought, for example, are supposed to be able to refer to public objects.
Sport should move us further away from thoughts about how we are supposed to look, not chain us into a lifetime of butt-taming burpees.
I could smell the leaves burning in the late fall, think the long thoughts that young people are supposed to have, and dream of my adult life, when I would have the love of a great woman and a Corvette.
"Whenever you get a negative thought, emotional symptom, you are supposed to turn on one side and with your arm movements in a kind if stop motion, just say STOP very firmly and that is supposed to cut off the adrenaline response," the young patient said.
