Sentence examples for undertaking a thought from inspiring English sources

Utopia portrayed an ideal society in a hypothetical "no-place" so that More would be perceived as undertaking a thought experiment, giving no direct offense to established interests.

Many years after the events presently being recounted, at a dinner in our heroine's own house, a philosopher sitting to her right — quoting another philosopher — suggested that she undertake a thought experiment: What if your brain cells were replaced individually with the brain cells of another person?

Before undertaking a pilgrimage to Makkah.

In giving his answer, Boethius makes use of a set of axioms he states at the beginning of the piece, and undertakes a thought-experiment in which it is supposed per impossibile that God does not exist.

Following on from Lars Iyer's debut Spurious, Dogma presents the further adventures of comic philosophers Lars and W, the Abbott and Costello of arcane thought, as they undertake a woefully under-attended lecture tour of the southern US.

"Many others – those who perhaps cannot face the thought of undertaking such a long journey for such a harrowing reason, or who perhaps can't afford to make the journey in the first place – risk unsafe, illegal abortions, which, without medical supervision, risk health and even death," Helen said.

That enormous change was undertaken with no thought or effort — or desire — to regulate the world that it would help to create.

Retirement planning should "never be undertaken with the thought that with enough money you could buy your way out of servitude in a job or career you hate," they write.

Then a thought occurred.

What a thought.

Just a thought.