Sentence examples for to immanent from inspiring English sources

The Latin immanere, "to remain in," leads us to immanent, "inherent, intrinsic," with a special philosophical sense of "confined to the mind".

For this reason, such works can be subjected to immanent critiques which show that they deny, efface, or contradict their own condition of possibility.

More generally, although people rarely think of it this way, they constantly take gambles that have minuscule chances of leading to immanent death, and correspondingly very high chances of some modest reward.

In a broader sense, trope theory is every bit as realist as immanent realism is, because tropes are just as real, according to trope theory, as properties are according to immanent realism, or for that matter, platonism).

It is important to bear in mind, however, that Augustine does not provide a philosophy of history of the sort that one might find in a Vico, Hegel, or Marx; his concern is not with articulating a notion of history that views its progress as intelligible, or that sees it as developing according to immanent processes that are themselves accessible and worthy of study.

He was quick to point out that he never intended the intentional object to be immanent to the act.

Let us move on now to immanent-realist, or physicalist, views of mathematics, and let us concentrate first on views like Mill's (1843, book II, chapters 5 and 6), i.e., views that maintain that sentences about numbers are really just general claims about bunches of ordinary objects.

This is exogenous order because the purpose involved is independent of the order, as opposed to being internal to or immanent within the order.

From this perspective, "to be immanent means nothing but to carry the form of being-conscious (Bewußtheit) and to be transcendent means to really exist without such form" (Rickert 1921a, 48).

How come that, apparently, humans are able to make fine-grained conceptual distinctions that are modified by learning and can even influence the individuals' perception according to categorical boundaries immanent to the concepts?

In propositional logic we are accustomed to assign a truth-value to a given proposition and in so doing we think of the truth-value as pertaining to the proposition itself and not to the immanent psychological act that affirms the proposition's truth.