Sentence examples for we impose upon from inspiring English sources

But Novey is much more interested in figurative notions of "disappearing"; how we vanish from the definitions we impose upon ourselves and others.

Idealism, at least as developed by Hegel, understands the active nature of the human subject, but confines it to thought or contemplation: the world is created through the categories we impose upon it.

Adding to this, Schopenhauer concludes in The World as Will and Representation that we create the violent state of nature, for he maintains that the individuation that we impose upon things, is imposed upon a blind striving energy that, once it becomes individuated and objectified, turns against itself, consumes itself, and does violence to itself.

Reality conforms to the explanation we impose upon it.

Money has the value we impose upon it and this becomes central to our polity.

Speculative realism asks how it might be possible to approach things in the world, apart from the meanings and classifications that we impose upon them.

Recently, by further research, we observe that the conditions imposed upon can be weakened, the self-adjointness of can be removed and is not necessarily commuting with the operator.

And what about the rather crowded vaccine schedule we now impose upon families of young children?

Even the town's most progressive white residents feel imposed upon by these advancements.

"Why was there such a haunting dissonance between the man and his image, or did we impose an image upon him that was utterly removed from the man?" Despite the Jolter's inarticulateness off the field, Mr. Charyn does not lack for material.

I mean that when we face reality in all its messy streaming complexity, we see that it exists independent of our rules, always wiggling free of the abstractions we try to impose upon it.